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science virus vocab
Question | Answer |
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organism | a living thing |
cell | the basic unit of stucture and function in an organism |
unicellular | made of a single cell |
multicellular | consisting of many cells |
autotroph | an organism that makes its own food |
hetertroph | an organism that cannot make its own food |
homeostasis | the maintenance of a stable internal condition |
classification | the process of grouping things based on their similarities |
taxonomy | the scientific study of how living things are classified |
binomial nomenclature | the system for naming organism in which each organism is given a unique, two-part scientific name indicating its genus and species |