Biology words
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| Metabolism | The sum total of all processes in an organism which convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy to sustain the organism's life function.
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| Anabolism | The sum total f all processes in an organism which use energy ad simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life.
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| Catabolism | The sum of all processes in an organism which break down chemicals to produce energy ans simple chemical building blocks.
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| Photosythesis | The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
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| Herbivores | Organisms that eat only plants.
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| Carnivores | Organisms that eat only organisms other then plants.
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| Omnivores | Organisms that ea both plants and other organisms
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| Producers | Organisms that produce their own food.
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| Consumers | Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for food.
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| Decomposers | Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms.
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| Autotrophs | Organisms that are able to make their own food.
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| Hetertrophs | Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food.
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| Receptors | Special structures that allow living organisms to sense that conditions of their internal or external environment.
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| Asexual Reproduction | Reproduction accomplished by a single organism.
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| Sexual Reproduction | Reproduction that requires two organisms.
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| Inheritance | The process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring.
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| Mutation | An abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of it's parents.
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| Hypothesis | An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.
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| Theory | A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data.
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| Scientific Law | A theory has been tested by ans consistent with generations of data.
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| Microorganisms | Living creatures that are too small to see with a naked eye.
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| Abiogenesis | The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions.
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| Prokaryotic Cell | A cell that has no distinct membrane-bounded organelles.
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| Eukaryotic Cell | A cell with distinct membrane-bounded organelles.
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| Species | A unit of on or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and care reproductively isolated from other such units.
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| Taxonomy | The science of classifying organisms.
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| Binomial Nomendature | Nmaing an rganism with it's genus and species name.
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