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Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biology | The study of life. |
| Signs of life | 1 life span 2 reaction to a stimulus 3 reproduction 4 growth or replacement of cells 5 metabolism 6 breathing 7 homeostasis 8 made of cells |
| Metabolism | The sum of all the chemical reactions that takes in and transform materials and energy from the environment. |
| Homeostasis | The maintenance of a stable level of internal conditions even through the environmental conditions are always changing. |
| Cell | The smallest unit that can preform life processes. |
| Stimulus | A physical or chemical change in the internal or external environment. |
| natural selection | organisms with favorable traits are better to survive than the ones that don't have them. |
| Adaptation | the trait that improve an individual's ability to survive and reproduce. |
| scientific method | 1 Identifying a qustion 2 research 3 hypothesis 4 design and preform 5 analyze data 6 conclusion |
| hypothesis | it is a proposed plan on what will happen in your test. |