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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 | Consisting of many cells |
| metabolism | The combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down material |
| stimulus | Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way |
| response | An action or cahnge in beavior that occurs as a result of a simulus |
| development | The process of change that occurs during an organism life to produce a complex organism |
| asexual reproduction | A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are genetically identiacal |
| sexual reproduction | A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism which diffwes deom vofgh parents |
| spontaneous generation | The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving thisngs |
| controlled experiment | An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time |
| autotroph | An organism that is Abel 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 it from other sources |
| homeostasis | The condition in which an organism internal environment is kept stable in spire of changes in the external environment |
| classification | The process of grouping things based on their similarities |
| taxonomy | The scientific study if how living things are classsified |
| binomial nomenclatyre | The classification system in which each organism is hiven a unique two part scientific name indicating its genus and species |
| genus | A classification grouping that consists of a number of similar closely reated species |
| secies | A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offsprings |
| prokaryote | A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus and some other cell sturcters |
| nucleus | In cells a large oval organelle that contains the cells genetic material in the form of DNA and controls many if the cells acruvutues |
| eukaryote | An organism whose cekks cintin a nucles |