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Vocab list #2
Term | Definition |
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Biology | study of life |
organism | is an individual living thing, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protest, or fungus |
Biotic (factor) | living thing in the environment |
Abiotic (factor) | non-living;not alive |
Prokaryotic/Prokaryote | no true nucleus |
Eukaryotic/Eukaryote | true nucleus |
Unicellular | one |
multicelluar | many |
Autotrophic/Autotroph | type of nutrition/organism |
Heterotrophic/Heterotroph | type of nutrition/organism |
Respiration | releasing chemical energy from food |
Aerobic | the proccess of producing cellular energy involving oxygen |
Anaerobic | when oxygen is absent or scarce |
Regulation | all body activities that help in maintaining homeostasis |
Reproduction | the process of when offsprings are produced by the parents |
Sexual | 2 parents |
asexual | 1 parent |
Nutrition | materials are taken in from the environment into the body |
Excretion | removal of metabolic/cellular waste products |
Transport | distribution of materials in/out of cells |
Synthesis | building complex material from simpler ones |
Growth | increase in cell number and in cell size |
Metabolism | all chemical activities of the body |
Homeostasis | maintaining a constant stable internal environment |