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Chapter 1 Lesson 1
What is life?
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cell | the basic unit of structer and function in organism |
| Organism | a living thing |
| Unicellular | a single celled organism |
| Multicellular | a multi celled organism |
| metabolism | the way an organism breaks down materials |
| Stimulus | a change in a organisms surroundings |
| Response | how a organism reacts to a stimulus |
| Development | is the process of change through a organisms life |
| Asexual reproduction | is when there is only 1 parent and they clone themselves into a identical offspring |
| Sexual reproduction | is when there are 2 parents and when the genetics mix the offspring is different from both of them |
| Spontaneous generation | when thing are born from a non living source - not possible |
| Controlled experiment | when all the experiments all all the same except for 1 factor |
| Autotroph | when the organism lives off food it creates |
| Heterotroph | obtain food from other living organisms |
| Homeostasis | controls the temperature of the inside a organism for the cells to funtion |