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vocabulary words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biology | the study of living organisms, divided into many specialized fields that cover their physiology,anatomy,behavior,origin,and distribution. |
| Organism | an individual animal, or single-celled life form. |
| Biotic (factor) | are the living parts of a ecosystem. |
| Abiotic (factor) | are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems. |
| Prokaryotic/Prokaryote | are unicellular organisms that lacks organelles or other internal membrane-bound structures. |
| Eukaryotic/Eukaryote | contains a nucleus and organelles. |
| Unicellular | consisting in a single cell. |
| Multicellular | having or consisting in many cells. |
| Autotrophic/Autotroph | a organism that make their own food. |
| heterotrophic/Heterotroph | a organism that cannot manufactured their own food. |
| Respiration | a process in living organisms involving the production of energy,typically with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide from the oxidation of complex organic substances |
| Aerobic | require free oxygen |
| Anaerobic | absence of free oxygen |
| Regulation | the action or process of regulating or being regulated . |
| Reproduction | the production of offspring and by a sexual or asexual process. |
| Sexual | the production of a new living organisms by combining genetic information |
| Asexual | (of reproduction)not involving the fusion of gametes |
| Nutrition | the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth |
| Excretion | the process of eliminating or expelling waste matter |
| Transport | refers to the act or means by which a molecule or iron ir moved across the cell membrane or via bloodstream |
| Synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements |
| Growth | the process of increasing a physical size |
| Metabolism | the chemical process that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life |
| Homeostasis | the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements,especially as maintained by physiological processes. |