Life Science - Cells Flashcards
An organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food.
Autotroph
An organism that cannot make its own food and gets food by consuming other living things.
Heterotroph
The basic unit structure and function of living things.
Cell
A trait that can help identify something.
Characteristic
A living thing.
Organism
Made of a single cell.
Unicellular
Consisting of many cells.
Multicellular
Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way.
Stimulus
An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus.
Response
The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources.
Spontaneous Generation
The condition in which an organism’s internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment.
Homeostasis
The process of grouping things based on their similarities.
Classification
A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
Species
The scientific study how living things are classified.
Taxonomy
The most basic level of organization in the classification of organisms.
Domain
