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Characteristics of Life

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nutrition   Obtaining nutrients from the environment and breaking them down.  
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transport   Moving materials throughout an organism.  
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respiration   Breaking down nutrients into smaller units and releasing stored energy in chemical bonds  
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synthesis   combining simple substances into more complex substances (building)  
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growth/repair   increase cell size or number  
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excretion   removing waste products  
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regulation/coordination   responding to the environmental stimuli and controlling the environment  
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reproduction   passing genes to the next generation (offspring)  
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cells   all living things are composed of cells  
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metabolism   the combination of all chemical reactions that occur in cells  
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homeostasis   maintaining a stable internal environment in a chaotic world  
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