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1
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The control and coordination of the way functions

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Regulation

2
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Provides all those substances that are used by an organism for the growth and repair of its tissues

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The process of nutrition

3
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The chemical activities there release energy from organic molecules for use by the cell

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Respiration

4
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The chemical bonds of glucose are broken down and the energy releases or is stored in the compound ATP. An organism uses the energy of ATP to perform its life functions

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respiration

5
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Small molecules combined to form larger ones

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Synthesis

6
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All the chemical activities that an organism must carry-on to sustain life

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Metabolism

7
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The breaking apart of glucose molecules to release their energy in the growth and repair of tissues to maintain a functioning body

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Examples of metabolic activities

8
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The maintenance of a stable internal environment in spite of changes or deviations in the external environment

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Homeostasis

9
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Maintenance of a constant body temperature in spite of temperature fluctuations in the external environment

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Example of homeostasis

10
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In living things the level of complexity follows this general pattern

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Cells->tissues->organs->systems->organisms

11
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Protein synthesis takes place here

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Ribosomes

12
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The sites of most reactions of cellular respiration

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Mitochondria