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Life processess
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is nutrition? | an organism can obtain materials from its environment and use them as food |
| what is ingestion? | taking food into the body |
| what is digestion? | the breaking down of food |
| what is egestion? | the removal of undigested food |
| what is transport? | the absorption and distribution of materials |
| what is respiration? | the process that provides energy for maintaining life functions |
| what is excretion? | removal of metabolic waste |
| what is synthesis? | larger molecules are built from smaller molecules |
| what is regulation? | an organism maintains a stable internal environment in a constantly changing external environment |
| what is growth? | the increase in cell size |
| what is reproduction? | the production of new organisms |
| what is metabolism? | the chemical reactions within an organism |
| what is homeostasis? | the maintenance of a stable internal environment |