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Characteristics of Living Things

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Scavenger   An animal that eats other dead animals or dead plants.  
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Decomposer   A living thing that gets its energy by breaking down the remains of other living things that are dead. They also eat animal wastes and consume or absorb the nutrients.  
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Consumer   A living thing that eats other living things or dead animal or plant material.  
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Producer   A living thing that can make its own food by using the energy that is around it.  
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Asexual Reproduction   Reproduction that doesn't need the union of sex cells where one parent brings about offspring that look a little bit like the parent.  
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Metabolism   The whole chemical process that happen in a living thing.  
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Heredity   The passing of traits from parent to child.  
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Stimulus   Anything that causes a response or change in an living thing or part of a living thing.  
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Sexual Reproduction   Reproduction where the sex cells from two parents unite to produce children that will look a little bit like both of the parents.  
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Homeostasis   The control of a continuous internal state in a changing world.  
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Cell   The smallest thing that can perform all life processes.  
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Response   A reaction of a living thing.  
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