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Life Characteristics
Life Science
Term | Definition |
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Organization | refers to a system of arrangement or order, or a structure for classifying things |
Homeostasis | Maintaining stable conditions within the body or system. |
Metabolism | the way that chemical processes in your body cause food to be used in an efficient way, for example, to make new cells and to give you energy. |
Reproduction | the production of offspring by a sexual or asexual process. |
Growth and Development | the process of growth is defined as an increase in size; development is defined as a progression toward maturity. Thus the terms are used together to describe the complex physical, mental, and emotional processes associated with growing up |
Response | a reaction to something |
Stimulus | a thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in a system, organism, organ or tissue |
Evolution | the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth |
Cell | Basic unit of structure and function in living things. |
Theory | A well tested explanation based on a wide range of observations and/or experimental results. |
Uni-cellular | Made of a single cell. |
Multicellular | Consists of more than one cell. |