Intro to living things Flashcards
A membrane covered structure that contains all of the materials necessary for life
Cell
Can be gravity, light, sound, chemical, hunger, or anything else that causes an organism to respond in someway
Stimulus
When your body maintains homeostasis by sweating when it gets hot and shivering when it gets cold
Homeostasis
Each offspring receives part of its DNA from each parent
Sexual reproduction
Each offspring receives an exact copy of the parents, DNA
Asexual reproduction
Organisms and some plants and animals reproduce using asexual reproduction
Unicellular
Offspring that share the characteristics of both parents through the process of sexual reproduction
Producers
eats other organisms to get food
Consumers
Returns nutrients to the soil which other organisms can use
Decomposer
Organisms that are made up of more than one cell
Multicellular
Deoxyribonucleic acid, is the genetic material that controls the structure and function of cells
DNA