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Unit 1A vocabwords
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organisms are ORGANIZED | have order- an orderly structure parts do specific jobs |
| maintain HOMEOSTASIS | maintenance of internal environment: maintaining a constant balance Ex: sweating |
| organisms METABOLIZE | organisms need power (energy) all chemical reactions carried out by the organisms |
| Autotroph | “self-feeder” obtain energy from sunlight or inorganic substances and produce its own food supply Ex: plants |
| Heterotroph | “other feeder” get its energy from food sources. Ex: animals, fungus |
| Organisms RESPOND to their surroundings | Response to a stimulus, adjusting to a change in the environment Ex: squinting in the sunlight |
| Organisms MAKE more living things Reproduction: | making more of the species; producing offspring Organisms can only come from other organisms |
| ASEXUAL | without sex creation of offspring from one parent, exactly the as the parent. |
| SEXUAL | with sex creation of spring from two parents, offspring with genetic variation. |