Branches of Life Science
Living Things
Needs of Organisms
A character of Life
Extra
100
The scientific study of the areas of science that deal with living things.
What is LIFE SCIENCE?
100
Any living thing.
What is an ORGANISM?
100
Organisms that make their own food.
What is an AUTOTROPH?
100

Non-living things can grow, but only living things

Develop

100

Natural selection in the environment

How do adaptations develop over time in a species and genes change in the environment. 

200

The studying or working in only one part of a subject.

What is branch?

200
The basic unit of structure and function in living things.
What is a CELL?
200
About two-thirds of your body is this.
What is WATER?
200

sum of all chemical reactions in an organism = using energy, making proteins, digesting food etc

metabolism

200

regulation of organisms internal environment to maintain conditions to allow it to live

What is Homeostasis 

300
The branch of life science that studies plants.
What is BOTANY?
300
The source of energy for most living things.
What is SUNLIGHT?
300
The process of keeping conditions inside a body constant.
What is HOMEOSTASIS?
300

Rocks are not living because

Not made of Cells

300

Something occurring in the external environment that elicits a response from an organism

What is a stimulus?

400
The branch of science that studies animals.
What is ZOOLOGY?
400
A reaction to a change.
What is a RESPONSE?
400

After having to much Taco Bell this could a character of life that occurs?

What is excretion 

400

The reason a virus is not considered a living thing (in this class) is because it

Not made of Cells

400
The process by which living things produce new organisms like themselves.
What is REPRODUCTION?
500
The branch of science that studies the way living things interact with their environment.
What is ECOLOGY?
500
The element found most in humans.
What is OXYGEN?
500

The process by which a cell releases energy from food molecules. 

What is CELLULAR RESPIRATION?

500

This molecule is used by every living thing (as well as many viruses) as a means of storing hereditary information

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

500
Reproduction needing only one parent.
What is ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION?
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