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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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cell
Definition
basic unit of structure and function in an organism
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unicellular
Definition
single-celled organism
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multicellular
Definition
orginisms composed of many cells
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development
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the process of change that occours during an orginism's life to produce a more complex orginism
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response
Definition
an action or change in behavior
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reproduce
Definition
to produce offspring similer to parents
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spontaneous generation
Definition
the mistaken idea that living things arise from non- living sources
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autotroph
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organisms that make their own food.
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heterotrophs
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organisms that cannot make their own food
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homeostasis
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keeping internal conditions the same even if things are changing
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photosynthesis
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uses energy from the sun to make storable energy used by plants and some bacteria
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chemeostasis
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converts chemicals into storable energy used by bacteria
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