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classification vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | any individual living system |
| Cell | the smallest, basic unit of life that can live on its own and makes up all living organisms |
| Unicellular | a living thing that is made up of only one cell. |
| Multicellular | a living thing made up of more than one cell with different types of specialized cells, |
| Metabolism | the set of chemical reactions in your body that change food and drink into energy |
| Stimulus | anything that rouses an action, provokes a response, or encourages economic growth |
| Response | an answer, reply, or reaction to a spoken statement, written message, event, or physical stimulus |
| Development | the act, process, or result of growing, expanding, and changing into a more advanced, mature, or useful state |
| Asexual reproduction | a type of reproduction that creates offspring from a single parent without the fusion of gametes (sex cells) or a change in chromosome number |
| Sexual reproduction | a biological process where two parents combine their genetic material to create a genetically unique offspring |
| Spontaneous generation | the discarded scientific theory that living organisms can develop directly from nonliving matter |
| Autotroph | an organism that makes its own food using simple inorganic substances and an external energy source |
| Heterotroph | an organism that cannot make its own food and must get its energy and nutrients by consuming other living or dead organisms |
| Classification | he systematic arrangement of objects, data, or organisms into pre-existing groups or categories based on shared characteristics |
| Taxonomy | the science and practice of classifying, naming, and organizing things or concepts into structured, hierarchical groups based on shared characteristics |
| Binomial nomenclature | a universal two-part naming system used in biology to give every species a unique scientific name |
| Genus | a taxonomic rank in biology that groups together closely related species |
| Species | the basic unit of biological classification comprising individual organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring |
| Prokaryote | a single-celled organism that does not have a distinct nucleus or other membrane-bound internal parts |
| Eukaryote | any organism whose cells contain a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus and other internal compartments called organelles |
| Nucleus | a central control structure, most commonly known as the membrane-enclosed organelle in eukaryotic cells that stores genetic material |
| Evolution | the change in the inherited traits of a biological population over successive generations |
| Branching tree diagram | a visual tool used to map out hierarchical structures, sequential events, or evolutionary relationships. |
| Shared derived characteristics | new biological features shared by two or more groups of organisms and inherited from their most recent common ancestor |
| Convergent evolution | he biological process where unrelated or distantly related species independently evolve similar physical traits or behaviors because they live in similar environments or face identical ecological challenges |