Mill Creek MS Science 6th grade Slanczka--Living Things
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| Organism | A living thing.
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| Unicellular | A type of organism that is made up of a single cell.
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| Multicellular | A type of organism that is made up of many cells.
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| Reproduction | The production of offspring that are similar to the parents.
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| Growth | When you're getting bigger.
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| Development | To get more complex and better.
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| Homeostasis | The maintenance of stable internal conditions despite changes in the surroundings.
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| Autotrophs | An organism that makes its own food.
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| Heterotrophs | An organism that cannot make their own food.
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| Spontaneous Generation | The mistaken idea that living things arise from non-living sources.
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| Taxonomy | The scientific study of how living things are classified
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| Binomial Nomenclature | The system where they name organisms like species and genes.
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| Stimulus | A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organisms to react.
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| Classification | The process of grouping things based on their simularities.
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| Genus | A classification grouping that consists of a number of a similar, closely related species.
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| Species | A group of similar organisms that can mate and produce, by offspring.
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| Vertebrate | An organism that has a backbone.
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| Invertebrate | An organism that does not have a backbone.
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| Cold-blooded | An organism whose body temperature changes with the environment--example: frog
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| Warm-blooded | An organism whose internal conditions stay at a constant temperature.
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| Taxonomic Key | The tool for identifying organisms that is based on a series of paired statements describing physical characteristics.
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| Fish | A cold-blooded vertabrate that has gills, scales, and fins.
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| Amphibian | Frogs, fish, and other animals in water.
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| Reptile | Reptiles have scales, like snakes and crocodiles.
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| Birds | Any warm-blooded vertebrate having their bodies covered in feathers, wings, scaly legs, beak, no teeth, and bears their young in a hard shell.
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| Mammal | Any vertebrate having a body covered more or less with hair, nourish their young with milk from mammary glands, and give birth to live young.
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