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| The basic unit of structure and function in living things. |
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| An organism that is made up of a single cell. |
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| An organism that is made of of many cells (more than one). |
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| The combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials. |
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Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way.
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| An action or change in behavior that occurs in result of a stimulus. |
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| The process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism. |
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| An organism that cannot make its own food and gets food by consuming other living things |
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| An organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food |
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| An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time |
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| The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources |
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| A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent |
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| A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce new organism which differs from both parents |
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| The condition in which an organism's internal enviroment is kept stable in spit of changes in the external enviroment |
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