Life Processes Flashcards
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Six important life processes
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Metabolism, responsiveness, movement, growth, differentiation, and reproduction
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Metabolism
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Sum of all chemical reactions in the body. Includes the breakdown of large complex molecules into smaller simpler ones.
3
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Responsiveness
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Body’s ability to detect and respond to change.
4
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Movement
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Motion of the whole body, individual organs, single cells, or even tiny organelles inside cells.
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Growth
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Increase in body size due to an increase in size of existing cells, increase in number of cells, or increase in the amount of material surrounding the cells
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Differentiation
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Process in which unspecialized cells become specialized.
7
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Reproduction
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Formation of new cells for growth, repair, or replacement, or the production of a new individual.
