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chapter 1 lesson 1
what is life?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | Living thing |
| Cell | Basic unit of structure and function in living things |
| unicellular | made of a single cell |
| Multicellular | consists off many cells |
| metabolsim | when a organism builds up or breaks down meterial |
| stimulus | some way to make a organism react |
| response | A action or change in behavior that occurs in a result of stimulus |
| development | the process of change during a organisms life to produce a more complex organism |
| sexual reproduction | reproduction combines 2 parents that combine there genetic material |
| spontaneous generation | The mistaken idea that living things can rise from none living sources |
| controlled experiment | an experiment where 1 veriblle is mini plated at a time |
| autotroph | organisms that produce there own food |
| heterotroph | organism that NOT make there food and get it by eating other things |
| homeostasis | When an organisms internal environment is kept normal, despite changes to the external environment. |
| asexual reproduction | One parent producing babies that are identical to the parent. |