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Life Processes vocab
Life Processes vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Life Processes | jobs every organism has to do in order to survive |
| Nutrition | obtaining food/nutrients |
| Transport | absorption and circulation of materials within an organism |
| Respiration | changing food into energy useable by cells |
| Synthesis | joining simple molecules to form complex molecules |
| Growth | increasing in size |
| Reproduction | producing offspring –can be asexual (1 parent, identical offspring) or sexual (2 parents, varied offspring) |
| Locomotion | organism moves from place to place |
| Excretion | removal of metabolic wastes |
| Regulation | coordinating/control life processes to maintain balanced internal environment |
| Metabolism | sum of all chemical reactions involved in these life processes |