Intro Vocabulary Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Reproduction | ______ occurs when offspring are produced from parent organisms. |
Species | A group of organisms that interbreed and produce offspring. |
Growth | Increasing in size. |
Development | The changes that happen as an organism gets older and matures. |
Stimulus | Anything in an organism's environment that causes the organism to react. |
Homeostasis | An organism's ability to maintain and keep the same conditions to stay alive. For example - maintaining a constant body temperature. |
Autotroph | An organism that can produce it's own food. |
Photosynthesis | The process that makes food from sunlight. |
Organism | A living thing. |
Autotroph | Would plants be considered an autotroph or a heterotroph? |
Heterotroph | An organism that must eat or consume food to get nutrients and energy. |
Metabolism | Changing food into usable energy. |
Adaptation | Anything that helps an organism respond to a stimulus and survive and reproduce. |
Evolution | Very gradual genetic changes to a species over a long, long time. |
Sexual reproduction | Reproduction from combining genetic information from TWO parents. |
Asexual reproduction | Reproduction from one parent. The offspring is identical! |
Multicellular | More than one cell. |
Unicellular | Only one cell. |
Uni - | One. (Like ____cellular, ___cycle, |
Di - | Two. |
Tri - | Three. (Like ___cycle, ___angle) |
Mono - | One. (Like ___poly) |
Poly - | Many. (Like ____gon) |
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