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Life Science Ch 2
Key Terms from Life Science Chapter 2: Living Things
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | living thing |
| unicellular | organisms with one cell |
| multicellular | organisms with more than one cell |
| stimulus | a change in an organisms surroundings that cause it to react |
| response | an action or change in behavior |
| development | process of change that occrs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism |
| spontaneous generation | mistaken idea that living things can arise from nonliving sources |
| autotrophs | make their own food |
| heterotrophs | cannot make their own food |
| homeostasis | stable internal conditions |
| classification | the process of grouping things based on their similarities |
| taxonomy | scientific study of how things are classified |
| binomial nomenclature | a unique, two-part scientific naming system |
| genus | classification grouping that contains similar, closely related organisms; the first name |
| species | group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce |
| prokaryotes | organisms whose cell does not have a nucleus |
| eukaryotes | organisms whose cells do have nuclei |