Biology Flashcards
What are the 8 properties of life?
DNA, Metabolize, Reproduction, responds, Ability to grow, has at least one cell, evalution
What property of life is not just individuals?
Evalution, because it needs many individuals/a speicies
What does metabolize mean?
Maintain energy
What does suface tension mean?
A layer of some sort over the water that prevents some life forms from getting in
What is somthing that is unique about water that no other liquid has?
water has a solid form that is less dense than the liquid form
What does homeostasis mean?
steady phisical and chemical conditions maintained by living systems
What does ecology mean?
Science of interactions/ecosystems
What does ecosytem mean?
A sytem with diffrent forms of life in one area
What does Niche mean?
A role that an orginism has in its community
What is mutulism?
dependence
What is Parastism?
One organism gets benifits and one gets harmed
