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Classification Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form |
| Cell | the smallest unit that can live on its own and that makes up all living organisms and the tissues of the body |
| Unicellular | characterized by the formation or presence of a single cell or cells |
| Metabolism | The chemical changes that take place in a cell or an organism |
| Stimulus | anything that can trigger a physical or behavioral change |
| Response | the behavior that is manifested by a living organism which is the result of an external or internal stimulus |
| Development | a process that creates growth, progress, positive change or the addition of physical, economic, environmental, social and demographic components |
| Asexual Reproduction | a mode of reproduction in which a new offspring is produced by a single parent |
| Sexual Reproduction | the production of new organisms by the combination of genetic information of two individuals of different sexes. |
| Spontaneous Reproduction | the idea that living organisms can spring into existence from non-living matter |
| Autotroph | an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals |
| Heterotroph | an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients |
| Classification | the arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities |
| Taxonomy | the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics. |
| Binomial nomenclature | a system of naming plants and animals in which each species is given a name consisting of two terms of which the first names the genus and the second the species itself |
| Genus | a class of things that have common characteristics and that can be divided into subordinate kinds |
| Species | a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring |
| Prokaryote | organisms whose cells lack a nucleus and other organelles |
| Eukaryote | organisms whose cells contain a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles |
| Nucleus | the membrane-enclosed organelle within a cell that contains the chromosomes |
| Evolution | the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and relies on the process of natural selection |
| Branching tree diagram | a set of groups within groups, with the organisms at the bottom having the fewest shared characteristics and the ones at the top having the most. |
| Shared derived characteristics | a characteristic of a lineage of organisms that has evolved after separating from other lineages |
| Convergent evolution | the process whereby distantly related organisms independently evolve similar traits to adapt to similar necessities |
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Preston Laird
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