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BP1.1What is Life?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a living thing | organism |
| the basic unit of structure and function in living things | cell |
| a one-celled organism | unicellular |
| an organism with many cells | multicellular |
| a change in an organism's environment that causes it to react | stimulus |
| an organism's reaction to a change in the environment | response |
| to become more complex | development |
| the mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving things | spontaneous generation |
| a scientist carries out two test in which everything is the same except one factor | controlled experiment |
| the one thing a scientist changes in a controlled experiment | manipulated variable |
| an organism that makes its own food | autotroph |
| an organism that cannot make its own food | heterotroph |
| maintaining stable internal conditions | homeostasis |