What is Life? - Ch. 1 Plants
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mmalach on March 16, 2011
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Vocabulary from the 'From Bacteria to Plants' textbook
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The Group, Malach OLD Vocab Sets
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 organisms | A living thing. |
| cell | The basic unit of structure and function in an organism. |
| unicellular | Made of a single cell. |
| multicellular | Consisting of many cells. |
| stimulus | A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism 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 a more complex organism. |
| growth | The process of becoming larger. |
| spontaneous generation | The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources. |
| controlled experiment | An experiment in which all factors are identical except one. |
| autotrophs | An organism that makes its own food. |
| heterotrophs | An organism that cannot make its 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 | The system for naming organisms in which each organism is given a unique, two-part scientific name indicating its genus and species. |
| genus | A classification grouping that consists of a number of similar, closely related species. |
| species | A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce. |
| evolution | The process by which species gradually change over time. |
| prokaryotes | An organism whose cells lack a nucleus and some other cell structures. |
| nucleus | The dense area in a eukaryotic cell that contains nucleic acids, the chemical instructions that direct the cell's activities. |
| eukaryotes | An organism whose cells contain nuclei. |
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