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1-1 What Is Life?

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six characteristics of life reproduction, cellular organization, similar chemicals, grow, respond to its surroundings/stimuli, use energy
organism a living thing
cell the basic unit of stucture and function in an organism
multicellular an organism that is composed of many cells
development the process of chang that occirs durring an organism's life to reproduce a more complex organism
stimulus a change in an organis's surroundings that cause the organism to react
response an action or change in behavior
reproduce produce offspring that are similar to the parent
spontaneous generation the mistaken idea that living things arise from non living sources
controlled expirament an expirament in which all of the variables except for one remain the same
manipulated varible the one factor that the scientist changes
four basic needs of living things energy, water, stable internal conditions, space
autotroph organism that makes its own food
heterotroph organism that cannot make its own food
homeostasis tthe maintenance of stable internal conditions despite changes in the surroundings
Francesco Redi -designed one of the first controlled expiraments -"meat in the jar" expirament -disproved spontaneous generation
Louis Pasteur -disproved spontaneous generation
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