Unit 1 Flashcards
(35 cards)
The study of living things
Biology
Living things can be studied on many
Different levels
The levels where organisms can be studied on are
Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism, groups of cells, cells, molecules.
Biotic
Living thing
Abiotic
Non living factors
Prokaryotic
Cells that do not contain membrane bound organelles
Eukaryotic
Cells that do contain membrane bound organelles
All living organisms need
Energy
All living organisms
Grow
All living organisms have a
Genetic code
All living things
Change over time
All living things
Reproduce
All living things
Respond to their environment
All living things maintain
Homeostasis
Nutrition
The life process by which an organism obtains and processes food
The process of getting food
Ingestion
The process of physically breaking down food
Digestion
Makes their own food
Autotroph
Depends on other organisms
Heterotroph
The life process that deals with circulation and absorption
Transport
Regulation
How your internal body responds to the external environment
Respiration
Releasing energy from food
Reproduction
Creating new organisms sexually or asexually
Growth
Increasing in size over time