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Charper 1 lesson 1
What is life
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Homeostasis | maintenance of stable internal conditions |
| Hererotroph | Organisms that cannot make there own food |
| autotroph | Organisms that make there own food |
| controlled experiment | when only one variable is changed at a time |
| spontaneous generation | mistaken that living things arise from nonliving things |
| sexual reproduction | involves two parents genetics materials to make a living organisms |
| asexual reproduction | a reproduction produces that involves one parent that produces an of spring with same genetics |
| development | process of change that occurs during an organism's to produce a more complex organism |
| reproduce | an action in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus |
| stimulus | change in the environment that can make a organism react in some way |
| organism | a living thing |
| cell | basic unit of structure in a organism |
| unicellular (unicorn) | made of a single cell |
| Multicellular | consisting of many cells |
| metabolism | the combination of chemicals reaction though witch an organism builds up or breaks down material |