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Title: Ch. 1 Vocabulary

Description: Living Enviroment

Total Flash Cards: 17

Created: 09/14/2010 15:23:51

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Biology
 Definition
The study of all living things.
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Organisms
 Definition
A living thing
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Homeostasis
 Definition
The condition of a constant internal enviroment.
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Nutrition
 Definition
The process by which organisms take in food and break it down so it can be used for metabolism
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Nutrients
 Definition
Substances that an organisms use to for energy, growth, repair, and maintinence.
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Ingestion
 Definition
The taking in of food from the enviroment
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Digestion
 Definition
Breakdown of complex food materials into simpler forms that an organism can use
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Transport
 Definition
Process by which substances enter and leave cells and become distributed within the cells
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Respiration
 Definition
The process of releasing chemical energy
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Synthesis
 Definition
Combining simple substances to make more complex substances
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Growth
 Definition
The process by which living organisms incrase in size
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Excretion
 Definition
The removal of wastes from the body
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Regulation
 Definition
All activities that help to maintain an organism's homeostasis
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Reproduction
 Definition
Process by which living things produce new organisms of their own kind
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Asexual Reproduction
 Definition
A single parent produces the offspring that are identical to the parent
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Sexual Reproduction
 Definition
Process in which two parents make offspring, and offspring is not exactly identical to the parent
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Metabolism
 Definition
All chemical reactions occuring within the cells of an organism