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Section 1
Keywords chapter 1.1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biology | The study of life |
| Organization | The high degree of order within an organisms internal and external parts and its interactions with the living world |
| Cell | the smallest unit that can perform all life's processes |
| Unicellular | made up of only one cell |
| Multicellular | made up of multiple cells |
| Organ | structures that carry out specialized jobs within an organ system |
| Tissue | a group of cells that have similar abilities and allow the organ to function |
| Organelle | organelles are parts of the cell that carry out functions so that the cell can live |
| Biological Molecule | chemical compounds inside organelles that provide physical structure and thatbring out movement, energy use, and other cellular functions |
| Homeostasis | the maintenance of a stale level of internal conditions even though enviromental conditions are constantly changing |
| Metabolism | the sum of chemical reactions that take and transform energy and materials from an enviroment |
| cell division | te formation of two new cells from an existing cell (cell reproduction) |
| Development | the process by which an organism becomes a mature adult |
| Reproduction | how organisms reproduce new organisms |
| Gene | A short segmant of DNA that contains the instructions for a single trait of an organism |