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Living Things
Living Things Science 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | any living thing |
| cell | smallest unit of an organism that carries on the functions of life |
| hereditary material (DNA) | contains instructions for cellular organization and function |
| stimulus | anything that causes some change in an organism |
| response | reaction to stimulus |
| homeostasis | organism's ability to keep the proper conditions inside no matter what is going on outside the organism |
| growth of one celled organism | growth is due to increase in the size of the cell |
| growth of many celled organism | mostly due to an increase in the number of cells |
| development | all of the changes that take place during the life of an organism |
| asexual reproduction | 1 parent (identical to parent) |
| sexual reproduction | 2 parents (characteristics of both parents) |
| what living things NEED | a place to live and raw materials |
| raw materials | water, food, and oxygen |
| % of water in humans | 70% |
| spontaneous generation | the idea that living things come from nonliving things |
| biogenesis | the theory that living things come only from other living things |
| ATP | store and supply the cell with energy |