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Terms for Ch One
the vocab for all four sections
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biology | the study of life |
| organization | the high degree of order within an organism's internal and external parts and in its interactions with the living world |
| cell | in biology, the smallest unit that can perform all life processes; cells are covered by membrane and contain DNA and cytoplasm. |
| unicellular | describes an organism that consists of a singal cell. |
| muticellar | descibes a tissue, organ, or organism that is made is mad of many cells. |
| organ | a collection of tissues that carry out a specialized fuction of the body. |
| tissue | a collection of specialized cells an dcell products that perform a specific function. |
| organelle | one of the small bodies that are found in the cytoplasm of a cell and that are specialized to perform a specific function. |
| biological molecule | chemical compound that provides physical structure and brings about movement, energy use, and other cellular functions. |
| homeostasis | the steady-state physiological condition of the body |
| metabolism | the sum of all chemical process that occur in and organism. |
| cell devision | the formation of two cells from one excisting state |
| development | the gene-directed processby which an organism matures. |
| reproduction | the process of producing offsprings. |
| gene | a short segment of DNA that contains the instructions for a single trait |