What Is Life?
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| organism | a living thing
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| cell | the basic unit of function and structure in living things
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| unicellular | made of a single cell
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| multicellular | consisting of many cells
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| metabolism | the combinations of chemical reactions through which an organism breaks down or builds up materials.
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| stimulus | Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way.
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| response | An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus.
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| development | the process of change that occurs during an organisms life to produce a more complex organism.
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| asexual reproduction | A reproduction process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are genetically identical to to the parent.
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| sexual reproduction | A reproduction process that involves two parents that combine their genetic materials to produce a new organism which differs from both parents.
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| spontaneous generation | the mistaken idea that living things arise from non-living sources.
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| controlled experiment | an experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time.
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| autotroph | An organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce it's own food.
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| heterotroph | An organism that cannot make it's own food and gets food by consuming other animals.
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| homeostatis | the condition in which an organism's internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in it's external environment.
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