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Ch 1:
Exploring and Classifying Life
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Changes that living things undergo as they grow. | Development |
| Living Thing | Organism |
| The maintenance of steady conditions inside an organism. | Homeostasis |
| Anything an organism reacts to. | Stimulus |
| Reaction of an organism to a stimulus. | Response |
| Smallest unit of life. | Cell |
| Characteristic of an organism that helps it to survivce in its environment. | Adaptation |
| The first word of an organism's scientific name. | Genus |
| The idea that living things come form nonliving things. | Spontaneous Generation |
| SI unit of mass. | Gram |
| SI unit of length. | Meter |
| An explanation of things or events based on many observations. | Theory |
| The evolutionary history of an organism. | Phylogeny |