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living things
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| unicellular | organisms with one cell |
| multicellular | organisms made of two or more cells,more complex,specialized to do different tasks,cells work together |
| water | most common chemical,essential for life |
| carbohydrates | provide cells with energy (simple or complex) |
| proteins and lipids | used for building cells |
| nucleic acids | dna;provide instructions to carry out the functions of life |
| grow | to become larger;organisms make more cells |
| develop | to change |
| stimulus | a change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way |
| response | an action or change in behavior |
| asexual | create identical offspring and to one parent |
| sexual | create offspring with a combination of dna from two parents |
| producers | make their own food |
| consumers | eat the food |
| controlled experiment | carries out two or more tests that are the same in every way except one-the independent variable |
| control group | exposed to the same factors as the experimental group,but given the normal or no treatment |
| water (2) | cells need water,substances dissolve in water and are transported easily |
| autotroph | self feeder |
| heterotroph | feeds on others (consumer;decomposer) |
| space | must have food and water in living space competition survival exists on this space |
| homeostasis | maintain a stable internal environment many methods of maintaining homeostasis |
| Linnaean Naming System | Carolus Linnaeus arranged organisms based on observal feature |
| binomial nomenclature | two part naming system made up of the organism's genus and species the more groups that two organisms share,the more characteristics they have in common |
| taxonomy | study of how organisms are classified scientists use taxonomy to identify the name of an unknown organism |
| domains | broadest level of classification eukarya-plant,animal,protist,fungi archaea and bacteria-unicellular organisms without nuclei |
| genus | first and capitalized |
| species | second and lowercase |
| name looks like this (usually in latin) | 𝙏𝙧𝙮𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙪𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙭;𝙁𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙭 𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙨 |
| taxonomic keys (or dichotomous key) | helps to identify an organism |
| common ancestry | as evidence of evolution increased,scientists changed how they classified organisms,certain organisms may be similar because they share a common ancestor |
| did king phillip come over from germany swimming | domain,kingdom,phylum class,order,family genus,species |
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