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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | any living thing |
| cell | basic unit of life, smallest living part of anything |
| unicellular | made of one cell |
| multicellular | made of more than 1 cell |
| metabolism | sum of all the chemical reactions for getting energy and removing waste in a living thing |
| stimulus | the thing that changes in an environment |
| response | what happens because of the stimulus |
| developoment | to learn and be able to do new skills |
| asexual reproduction | 1 parent needed. Makes a new living thing with no sex at all |
| sexual reproduction | 2 parents needed. |
| autotroph | makes it own food |
| heterotroph | eats other things |
| homeostasis | stable and happy internal conditions so an organism can function at its most efficient |
| living things are made of untics called | cells |
| an organism builds up or breaks down energy through a process of chemical reactions called | metabolism |
| All living things must mantain homeostasis, an example of that is | when you step out in the cold your body shivers to try to maintan its normal temperature |
| you accidently touch a hot burner and move your hand away quickly, the hot burner is an example of | stimulus |
| caveman hunt for their own food because they are | hetrotroph |
| Living things need | a way to get energy, space, homeostatis |
| Can living things spontanously generate from nothing? | no, living things come from other living things |