Characteristics of Life
Vocabulary
Basic Needs
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Potpourri
100
All living things are made up of at least one of these.
What is a cell?
100
An individual plant, animal, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
100
Needs that organisms require in order to survive.
What are basic needs.
100
a single-celled organism
unicellular
100
organisms that cannot make their own food
heterotroph
200
All living things respond to this.
What is stimuli?
200
A thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue.
What is a stimulus?
200
True or false Daylight (sunshine) is one of our basic needs.
False, some organisms thrive in the dark.
200
reproduce through binary fission (one parent)
asexual
200
ability of an organism to keep conditions inside the body the same even though outside conditions change
homeostasis
300
All living things exchange these.
What are gases?
300
Any of the distinct types of material of which animals or plants are made.
What is tissue?
300
The number one (#1) basic need that all organisms need to survive.
What is water.
300
two parent reproduction is known as
sexual reproduction
300
organisms that can make their own food
autotroph
400
All living things get bigger (increase in cell size), or do this.
What is grow?
400
any organism whose cells contain a nucleus
Eukaryote
400
territory where organisms get their basic needs.
What is living space. (habitat, shelter, etc.)
400
organisms that consists of more than one cell
multi cellular
400
most autotrophs make their own food by this process
What is photosynthesis
500
All living this must have this in order to survive.
What is water?
500
single-celled organism that lacks a membrane-bound nucleus
prokaryote
500
The two gasses that are included in basic needs are ...
Oxygen (O2) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
500
the highest rank of order for organisms
What is kingdom
500
cells specialize to have specific functions is known as ....
development (develop)
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