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
A living thing
Organism
The basic unit of structure and function in living things
Cell
Made of a single cell
Unicellular
Consisting of many cells
Multicellular
An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus
Response
The mistaken idea that living things arise from no living sources.
Spontaneous generation
Structures that are similar in different species and that have been inherited from a common ancestor.
Homeostasis
Typical of a particular person, place, or thing.
Characteristic
Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way
Stimulus
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 if how living things are classified
Taxonomy
The most basic level of organisms in the classification of organisms
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