Science Vocabulary🔬 Flashcards
Cell
The basic unit of structure and function in living things
Autotroph
An organism that in able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food
Heterotroph
An organism that can not make it’s own food by consuming living things
Homeostasis
The condition in which an organism’s internal environment is kept stable in Pitt of changes in the external environment
Organism
A living thing
Classification
The process of grouping things based on their similarities
Taxonomy
The scientific study of how living things are classified
Binomial nomenclature
The classification system in which each organism is given a unique, two-part scientific name indicating its genus and species.
Genus
A classification grouping they consists of a number of similar, closely related species.
Species
a group of similar organism that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Prokaryote
A unicellular organism that la ms a nucleus and some other cell structures
Eukaryote
An organism whose cells contain a nuclear
Nucleus
In cells, a large oval organelles that contains the cell’s genetic material in the form of DNA and controls many of the cell’s activities
