Characteristics of life

Question 1

anatomy

Answer 1

study of the form of body parts and how they’re organized. Also called morphology

Question 2

physiology

Answer 2

study of functions of body parts

Question 3

movement

Answer 3

change in position, traveling, or motion of internal parts

Question 4

responsiveness

Answer 4

ability to sense change and react to the change

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growth

Answer 5

increase in body size without change in shape

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reproduction

Answer 6

making a new individual or cell

Question 7

respiration

Answer 7

obtaining oxygen, using it to release the energy in food, and resulting in gaseous waste

Question 8

digestion

Answer 8

chemical and mechanical breakdown of food into simple form that cells can use

Question 9

absorption

Answer 9

passage of substances through membranes

Question 10

circulation

Answer 10

movement of substances into forms that are chemically different from those that entered the body

Question 11

excretion

Answer 11

removal of waste

Question 12

metabolism

Answer 12

chemical and physical changes

Question 13

homeostasis

Answer 13

maintaining a stable environment

Question 14

negative feedback

Answer 14

stimulation of responses in the opposite direction to return and organism to it’s normal state

Question 15

axial portion

Answer 15

includes head, neck, and trunk

Question 16

appendicular portion

Answer 16

includes upper and lower limbs