Life functions Flashcards
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cells
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living matter is always compartmentalized into one or more cells
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organization
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expend a great deal of energy to maintain order, and disease and death are effects in breakdown of that order
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metabolism
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The sum of all internal chemical change
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growth
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occurs through metabolic change; chemically altering the food we eat
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development
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any change in form or function over the lifetime of the organism; differentiation
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excitability
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The ability of organisms to sense and react to stimuli
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homeostasis
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maintaining relatively stable internal conditions in organism
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reproduction
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organisms producing copies of themselves thus passing their genes on to offspring
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Evolution
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genetic change in the population over time
