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Life's Structure and Function-Chapter 1
Life vocabulary
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7th Grade
01/20/2012

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Term
organism
Definition
any living thing
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cell
Definition
smallest unit of an organism that can carry on life functions
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homeostasis
Definition
regulation of an organism's internal, life-maintaining conditions
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reproduction
Definition
a process where you create more of your kind
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biogenesis
Definition
theory that living things come only from other living things
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spontaneous generation
Definition
idea that living things come from nonliving things
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contaminate
Definition
to ruin by mixing a substance with another
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contaminate
Definition
to ruin by mixing a substance with another
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genus
Definition
first word of the two-word scientific name used to identify a group of similar species
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binomial nomenclature
Definition
two-word naming system that gives all organisms their scientific name
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dichotomous key
Definition
a detailed list of identifying characteristics that includes scientific names
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