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Chapter 1 biology
Biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The study of life | Biology |
| The high degree of order within an organism's internal and external parts and in it's interactions with the living world | Organization |
| Smallest unit that can perform all life processes. Covered by a membrane, contain DNA & Cytoplasm | Cell |
| Single celled | Unicellular |
| many celled | Multicellular |
| collection of tissues that carry out a specialized fuction of the body | Organ |
| collection of specialized cells and cell products that perform a special function | Tissue |
| one if the small bodies that are found in the cytoplasm of a cell and that are specialized to perform a specific function | Organelle |
| chemical compound that provides physical stucture and brings about movement,energy use/other cell fuctions | Biological Molecule |
| the steady-state physiological conditon of the body | Homeostasis |
| the sum of all chemical process that occur in an organism | Metabolism |
| the formation of two cells from one existing cell | Cell Division |
| the gene-directed process by which an organism matures | Development |
| the process of producing offspring | Reproduction |
| a short segment of DNA that contains the instructions for a single trait | Gene |