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Week One Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| metabolism | the set of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials as it carries out its life processes. |
| microscope | a device that produces magnified images of structures that are too small to see with the unaided eye. |
| multicellular | organisms that are made of many (hundreds, thousands even trillions)cells. |
| metric system | the decimal system of measurement based on certain physical standards and scaled on multiples of 10's. |
| sexual reproduction | process by which two cells from different parents unite to produce the first cell of a new organism. |
| unicellular | an organism that is made up of a single cell. |
| asexual Reproduction | the process by which a single parent reproduces by itself. |
| Biology | the science that seeks to understand the living world. |
| compound Light Microscope | a microscope that allows light to pass through a specimen and uses two lenses to form an image. |
| electron Microscope | a microscope that forms an image by focusing beams of electrons onto a specimen. |
| evolution | the change in a kind of organism over time; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms. |
| homeostasis | process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment. |