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C & N: living things
Characteristics and Needs of Living Things
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Autotroph | An organisms that makes its own food |
| Cell | The basic unit of structure and function in an organism |
| Development | The act of becoming more complex |
| Growth | The act of becoming larger |
| Homeostasis | The maintenance of stable internal conditions |
| Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food |
| Multicellular | An organism composed of more than one cell |
| Organism | A living thing |
| Reproduce | to produce offspring |
| Response | A change in an organism's behavior as a reaction to a stimulus |
| Spontaneous Generation | the mistaken idea that living things come from nonliving things |
| Stimulus | A change in the environment that causes an organism to react |
| Unicellular | an organism composed of only one cell |