7M Chapter 1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
organism | living thing |
cell | basic unit of structure and function in an organism |
unicellular | made of a single cell |
multicellular | consisting of many cells |
stimulus | change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organisms to react |
response | an action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus |
development | the process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce more complex organism |
spontaneous generation | the mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources |
controlled experiment | an experiment in which all identical except one |
autotroph | an organism that makes its own food |
heterotroph | an organism that cannot make its own food |
homeostasis | keeping body temperature |
classification | process of grouping things based on their simalarities |
taxonomy | study of new things are classifed |
binomial nomenclature | naming system |
genus | classification grouping that contains similar, closely related organisms |
species | group of similar organisms that can mate with each other, produce, and mate again, and produce again |
evolution | species gradually change over time |
prokaryote | cell that lacks a nucleus |
eukaryote | cell that has a nucleus |
nucleus | dense area in a eukaryote cell that contains nucleic acids |
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