Introductory vocabulary for learning characteristics of life.
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| Reproduction | ______ occurs when offspring are produced from parent organisms.
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| Species | A group of organisms that interbreed and produce offspring.
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| Growth | Increasing in size.
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| Development | The changes that happen as an organism gets older and matures.
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| Stimulus | Anything in an organism's environment that causes the organism to react.
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| Homeostasis | An organism's ability to maintain and keep the same conditions to stay alive. For example - maintaining a constant body temperature.
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| Autotroph | An organism that can produce it's own food.
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| Photosynthesis | The process that makes food from sunlight.
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| Organism | A living thing.
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| Autotroph | Would plants be considered an autotroph or a heterotroph?
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| Heterotroph | An organism that must eat or consume food to get nutrients and energy.
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| Metabolism | Changing food into usable energy.
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| Adaptation | Anything that helps an organism respond to a stimulus and survive and reproduce.
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| Evolution | Very gradual genetic changes to a species over a long, long time.
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| Sexual reproduction | Reproduction from combining genetic information from TWO parents.
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| Asexual reproduction | Reproduction from one parent. The offspring is identical!
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| Multicellular | More than one cell.
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| Unicellular | Only one cell.
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| Uni - | One. (Like ____cellular, ___cycle,
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| Di - | Two.
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| Tri - | Three. (Like ___cycle, ___angle)
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| Mono - | One. (Like ___poly)
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| Poly - | Many. (Like ____gon)
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