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| The study of living things |
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| The condition of a stable internal environment in an organism |
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| The process by which organisms take in food and break it down so it can be used for metabolism |
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| The taking in of food from the environment |
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| The breakdown of complex food materials into simpler forms that an organism can use |
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| Tge process by which substances move into or out of cells or are distibuted within cells |
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| The process of releasing energy in a complex series of chemical reactions |
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| The chemical combining of simple substances to form more complex substances |
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| The conversion of absorbed food into the substance of the body |
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| The process by which living organisms increase in size |
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| The removal of waste substances from an organism |
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| All the activities that help to maintain an organisms homeostasis |
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| Reproduction with only 1 parent, offspring are identical to parent |
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| A form of reproduction in which a new individual is produced by the union of the nuclei of 2 specialized sex cells, i.e. , gametes, usually from 2 seperate parent organisms |
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| All the chemical reactions occuring within the cells of an organism |
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