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Vocab list #2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |