Life Characteristics
Maintaining the constancy of an internal environment
What is Homeostasis
What is an atom
These factors include bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae, plant roots, and burrowing animals
What are biotic factors in the soil
It is a natural history or lineage that all living things have, because living things only come from pre-existing living things
What is ancestry
It may be held together my ionic or covalent bonds
What is a molecule
These factors include rocks, minerals, sand, silt, clay, water, air, pH, and temperature.
What are abiotic factors in the soil.
It is the sum of all the chemical reactions in a cell or organisms
What is metabolism
It is the building block of proteins
What is an amino acid
These factors make up about 95% of the volume of the soil
What are abiotic factors
Cells are the basic unit of life; all living organisms are made of 1+ cells; cells come from pre-existing cells
What is cell theory
It is the biological community plus abiotic factors (water, air, rocks, minerals, pH, temperature, ...)
What is an ecosystem
These organisms help bring more water from the soil into the roots of plants
What are mycorrhizal fungi
Photosynthesizers use this law when producing carbohydrates using the energy of sunlight
What is the first law of thermodynamics
This is basic unit of life; all the properties of living things emerge at this level of organization
What is the cell