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17 Cards in this Set
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what is biology?
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the study of life
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what is an organism?
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any living thing
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environment
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the surroundings of an organism, which effects how it lives
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water
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makes up more than 65% of all organisms, it dissolves and carries materials through an organism, helps keep an organisms temperature stable
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gases
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-found in the environment
-needed to perform life processes -oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen |
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proper temperature
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needed to maintain homeostasis,
or dynamic equilibrium, which means to have a constant stable, internal environmnet |
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proper habitat
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a place to live and find all the other factors needed for to carry out the life process
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metabolism
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total of all the chemical activities, that occur in a living thing involving energy usage
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respiration
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process by which an organism changes, some of the energy stored in food into a more usable form, co2 is produced as a waste a product
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what is response?
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a reaction to stimuus
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what is stimulus?
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any change in the internal or external environment of an organism
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homeostasis
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the body's ability to maintain a constant internal environment
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what is growth?
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building new parts for an organism during metabolism
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what is movement?
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change in postion
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what is reproduction?
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production of a new offspring or organism
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sexual
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two parents
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asexual
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one parent
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