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What is life?
Bonnie Branch 7th Grade - 1-1 / What is Life?
Term | Definition |
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organism | any living thing |
cell | basic unit of structure and function in living things |
response | An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus |
autotroph | organism that can make its own food |
heterotroph | organism that cannot make its own food |
homeostasis | process of keeping conditions inside a body constant, no matter the conditions outside the body |
stimulus | A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organisms to react. |
spontaneous generation | idea that living things come from non-living things |
reproduction | process by which living things produce new organisms like themselves |
unicellular | containing only one cell |
multicellular | containing more than one cell |
development | the process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism |
controlled experiment | an experiment in which all of the variables except one remain the same |
variable | the one factor in an experiment that a scientist changes |