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Vocabulary word list
vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Homeostasis | maintaining a stable internal environment. |
| Respiration | releasing chemical energy from food. |
| Excretion | process by which metabolic waste is eliminated from an organism. |
| Synthesis | building complex material from simpler ones. making something. |
| Egestion | remove solid waste. |
| Metabolism | all chemical and physiological activities of the body. |
| Organism | any living thing. |
| Heterotrophic | different. |
| Eukaryotic | true nucleus. |
| Unicellular | one cell. |
| Taxonomy | a branch of biology specializing in organizing living things. |
| Chordates | animal phylum chordata. |
| Multicellular | many cells. |
| Prokaryotic | no true nucleus |
| Genus | consist of more than one (1) closely related species. |
| Binomial nomenclature | means “two name” naming system, which is universally known and understood by scientists. |
| Autotrophic | self feed. auto = self trophic = feed. |
| Asexual | self reproduction. |
| Regulation | adapt to enviroment. |
| Kingdom | largest category and it is made up of a group of phyla. |