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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | a living thing |
| cell | The basic unit of structure and function in living things |
| unicellular | made of a single cell |
| multicellular | consists of many cells |
| metabolism | the combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials |
| stimulus | any change or signal in the enviornment that can make react in some way |
| response | an action of change in behavior that occurs as a result of stimulus |
| development | the process of change that occurs during an organism's life to reproduce a more complex system |
| asexual reproduction | a reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent |
| sexual reproduction | a reproductive process that involves two parents that combines their genetic material to produce a genetic organism which differs from both parents |
| spontaneous generation | the mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sorces |
| controlled experiment | an experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time |
| autotroph | an organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food |
| heterotroph | an organism that cannot make its own food and gets food by consuming other living things |
| homeostasis | the condidtion in which organism's internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external enviornment |
| classification | the process of grouping things based of their simlarites |
| taxonomy | the scientific study of how living things are classified |
| binomial nomenclature | the classification system in which each organism is given a unique, two-part scientific name indicating its genius and specifies |
| genus | a classification grouping that consists of of a number of similar closely related species |
| species | a group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce |
| prokaryte | a unicellular animal-like prtist |
| nucleus | in cells a large oval organelle that contains the cells genetic materials in the form of DNA and controls many of the cells activtes |
| eukaryote | an organism whose cell contains a nucleus |