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Vocab Words
Term | Definition |
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Biology | study of living things |
Metabolism | the chemical process by which a living things uses for food and growth |
Organism | an indiividual animal , plant or single celled form |
Biotic | relating to or resulting from living things |
Life Processes | maintain body functions and are necessary for survival |
Homoeostasis | the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements |
abiotic | physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms. |
sexual | Reproduction by the union of male and female gametes to form a zygote. |
asexual | produced by, or involving reproduction that occurs without the union of male and female gametes, as in binary fission or budding. |
aerobic | which is the process used by the cells of most organisms, the production of energy from glucose metabolism requires the presence of oxygen. |