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Chapter 1 Lesson 1
What is life?
Term | Definition |
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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 |