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| The study of living things. |
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| The condition of a stable internal environment in an organism. |
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| The process in which organisms take in food and break it down so it can be used for metabolism. |
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| The taking in of food from the environment. |
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| The breakdown of complex food materials into simpler forms that an organism can use. |
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| The process by which substances move into or out of cells or are distributed within cells. |
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| The process of releasing energy in a complex series of chemical reactions. |
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| The chemical combining of simple substances to form more complex substances. |
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| The incorporation of materials into the organism's body. |
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| The process by which living organism's increase in size. |
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| The removal of waste substances from an organism. |
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| All the activities that help to maintain an organism's homeostasis. |
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| Reproduction with only one parent. Offspring are identical to parent. |
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| A form of reproduction in which a new individual is produced by the union of the nuclei of two specialized sex cells. |
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| All the chemical reactions occuring within the cells of an organism. |
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