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Mr. Radeke
Mr. Radeke Chapter 2 Section 1 Life Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | A living thing. |
| Cell | The basic unit of structure and function in living things. |
| Unicellular | Made of a sinlge cell. |
| Multicellular | Consisting of many cells. |
| Stimulus | A change in an organism’s surroundings that causes the organism to react. |
| Response | An action or change in behavior that occurs in reaction to a stimulus. |
| Development | The process of change that occurs during an organism’s life to produce a more complex organism. |
| Spontaneous Generation | The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources. |
| Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food. |
| Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food. |
| Homeostasis | The maintenance of stable internal conditions in an organism. |
| What is a controlled experiment? | An experiment in which two tests are identical except for one factor. |
| Why are plants called autotrophs? | Because they make their own food. |