Chapter 1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
organism | a living thing |
cell | the basic unit of structure and function of life |
unicellular | made of a single cell |
multicellular | consisting of many cells |
stimulus | A change in the organism surroundings causing it to react |
responce | A action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus |
development | the process of change in a organisms life |
spontaneous generation | the mistaken idea of living things arising from nonliving things |
controlled experiment | an experiment in which all factors are identical accept for one |
autotroph | an organism that can produce its own food |
heterotroph | an organism that cannot make it own food |
homeostasis | the maintenance of stable internal conditions |
Classification | the process of grouping things based on their similarities |
taxonomy | The scientific study of how living things are classified |
binomial nomenclature | naming system |
genus | a classification grouping that consist of a number of similar closely related species |
species | a group of similar organisms that can mate with each other |
Evolution | The process by which species gradually change over time |
Prokaryote | An organism whose cell lack of nucleus |
Eukaryotes | An organism whose cell contain nuclei |
Nucleus | The dense area in eukaryotic cell that contains nucleic acids the chemical instructions that direct the cells activities |
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