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Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary words#2
Term | Definition |
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Organism | an individual animal,or single-celled life form. |
Biotic (factor) | are the living parts on 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 | organism that makes their own food. |
Heterotrophic/Heterotroph | a organism that cannot manufacture 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 | relating to,involving,or requiring 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 new living organisms by combining genetic information from two individuals of different types (sexes). |
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 the means by which a molecule or ion ir moved across the cell membrane or via the bloodstream. |
Synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole. |
Growth | the process of increasing in physical size. |
Metabolism | the chemical processes 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. |