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cell system part1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | A living thing |
| cell | the basic unit of stucture and function |
| unicellular | made of a sigle cell |
| multicellular | consising of many cell |
| response | an action or change in behavior that occurs as a restult of astimulus |
| spontaneous generartion | the mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources |
| homesostasis | the condtion in which an organism's internal enviroment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment |
| characteristics | a feature that help to identfy something |
| microscope | an instrument that make small objects looke larger |
| cell theory | a widely acceted explanation for the relaationship between cell and living things |
| bistinguish | to manage to recognize something you can barely see (2) to point out a difference |
| Growth | size or stage of develpment |
| hand lens | a magnifying glass deigned to be held in the hand |
| mangification | to increae the apparent size of an object |
| reproduce | to reproduce it't kind, as in an organge; bear offsping |
| Energy | the ability to do work or cause change |
| waste | anything left over or not of use |