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Living things; Vocab
Science vocab to study
Question | Answer |
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Organism | A living thing. |
Cell | The basic unit of structure and function of an organism. |
Unicellular | Made of one single cell. |
Multicellular | Consisting of many cells. |
Stimulus | A change in an organisms surroundings that causes the organism to react. |
Response | An action or change in behavior that occurs as the result of a stimulus. |
Development | The process of changes that occur during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism. |
Spontaneous Generation | The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources. |
Controlled Experiment | An experiment in which all factors are identical except one. |
Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food. |
Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food. |
Homeostasis | The maintenance of stable internal connections. |