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lesson 1-3 benb
| 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 materials. |
| Stimulus | Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way. |
| Response | An action of change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus. |
| Development | The process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism |
| 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 combine their genetic material to produce a new organism which differs from both parents. |
| Spontaneous Generation | The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources. |
| 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. |
| Hemeostatis | The condition in which an organism's internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment. |
| Classification | The process of grouping things based on their similarities. |
| 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 genus and species. |
| Genus | A classification grouping that consists of a number of similar, closely related species. |
| Species | Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way. |
| Prokaryote | A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus and some other cell structures. |
| Nucleus | 1. In cells, a large oval organelle that contains the cell's genetic material in the form of DNA and controls many of the cell's genetic material in the form of DNA and controls many of the cell's activities. |
| Eukaryote | An organism whose cells contain a nucleus. |