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Chapter 1 lesson 1
What is life
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | a living thing |
| cell | the basic unit of structure and function in an organism |
| unicellular | a single celled organism |
| multicellular | an organism composed of many cells |
| metabolism | the combination of chemical reactions that an organism uses to break down materials |
| stimulus | a change that causes an organism to react |
| response | an organism's change in behavior do to a stimulus |
| development | the change that happens over a lifetime, producing a more complex organism |
| asexual reproduction | involves only one parent that produces offspring identical to the parent |
| sexual reproduction | involves two parents and produces offspring that differs from both |
| spontaneous generation | the mistaken idea that living things can arise from non-living sources |
| controlled experiment | a series of tests where only one variable is changed |
| autotroph | organisms that make their own food |
| hetertroph | organisms that cannot make their own food |
| homeostasis | the maintenance of stable internal conditions |