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What is Life?
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Biology
7th Grade
09/30/2010

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Organism
Definition
Living things
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Response
Definition
An action or change in behavior to something
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Unicellular
Definition
Organisms made up of one cell
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Cell
Definition
A basic unit of structure and function in an organism
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Multicellular
Definition
Organisms composed of more than one cell
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Reproduce
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To produce offspring that are similar to its parents
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Develpoment
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The process of change the occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organismg
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Autotroph
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An organism that makes its own energy from the sun or chemicals
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Homeostasis
Definition
keeping internal conditions stable when external conditions change
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Heterotroph
Definition
An organism that has to consume energy because it can't make its own food
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Spontaneous generation
Definition
The mistaken idea that living things arise from non-living sources
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Photosynthesis
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The process in which plants and some bacteria make energy from the sun
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Chemosynthesis
Definition
The process used by organisms who don't have access to sunlight to make energy from chemicals
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The Four Needs of Life
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Energy, Water, Living Space, and Stable Internal Conditions
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