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Term | Definition |
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Heredity | Passing of parents genetic traits to offspring |
Metabolism | The sum of all chemical processes that happen in an organism |
Asexual reproduction | Reproduction without sex cells in which parent produce offspring that are genetically identical to the parent |
Producer | an organism that can make its' own food |
Consumer | an organism that eats organisms or what they make |
Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal waste and consuming the nutrients |
Scavenger | an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse. |
Stimulus | anything that causes reaction or change in an organism |
Sexual reproduction | reproduction in which the sex cells from 2 parents unite to produce of offspring that share traits from both parents |
Homeostasis | the maintanince of a constant internal state in a changing enviroment |
Cell | in biology the smallest unit that can perform all life processes cells are covered by membrane and contain DNA and cytoplast |
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