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Activities to maintain homeostasis

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Biology   Study of life and living organisms.  
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Metabolism   The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.  
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Life   The existence of an individual human being or animal.  
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Aerobic   Relating to, involving, or requiring free oxygen.  
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Organism   Contiguous living system, such as an animal, plant, fungus, archaeon, or bacterium.  
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Anaerobic   Relating to, involving, or requiring an absence of free oxygen.  
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Life Processes   Series of actions that are essential to determine if an animal is alive.  
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Sexual   A mode of reproduction involving the fusion of female gamete (ovum) and male gamete (spermatozoon), which forms a zygote that potentially develops into genetically distinct offspring.  
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Homeostasis   The tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.  
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Asexual   Not involving the fusion of gametes.  
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Biotic   Relating to, or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.  
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Abiotic   Non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems.  
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Adaptation   A change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment.  
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Autotrophic   Type of nutrition in which organisms synthesize the organic materials they require from inorganic sources.  
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Control   A variable that remains unchanged or held constant to prevent its effects on the outcome and therefore may verify the behavior of and the relationship between independent and dependent variables.  
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Data   Measurements collected from biological sources, which are often stored or exchanged in a digital form.  
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