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Multiple organs that work together to perform a specific life function.
Organ System
any inherited structure, behavior, or internal process that enables an organism to respond to environmental factors and live to produce offspring.
Adaptation
The study of life.
Biology
Commonly known as SI
International System of Measurement
A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring in nature.
species
Orderly structure.
Organization
An organism’s surroundings.
Environment
Anything in an organism’s external or internal environment that causes the organism to react.
Homeostasis
Scientific research carried out for the sake of knowledge.
Pure science
Period of nuclear cell division in which two daughter cells are formed.
Mitosis
The gradual change in a species through adaptations over time.
Evolution
Diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane depending on the concentration of solutes on either side of the membrane.
osmosis
In a chemical change, matter is neither created nor destroyed.
law of conservation of mass
The application of scientific research to society’s needs and problems.
Technology
Cell growth phase where a cell increases in size, carries on metabolism and duplicates chromosomes prior to division.
Interphase
A reaction to a stimulus.
Response
The number of deaths per 1000 population in a given year.
death rate
Information used to make graphs and tables.
Quantitative data
The center of an atom.
Nucleus
Groups of cells that work together to perform a specific function.
Tissue
Anything that possesses all of the characteristics of life.
Organism
The capacity to do work.
Energy
The study of human population size, density and distribution, movement, and its birth and death rates.
Demography
The change of one or more substances into other substances.
Chemical Reaction
Group of two or more tissues organized to perform complex activities within an organism.
Organ