Vocab

Question 1

Organism

Answer 1

A creature such as a plan or a single called life form or something that has a interdependent part

Question 2

Stimuli

Answer 2

Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system

Question 3

Homeostasis

Answer 3

The ability to maintain internal stability in an organism

Question 4

Asexual reproduction

Answer 4

Singe parent produces off spring that are identical to parent

Question 5

DNA

Answer 5

Necleic acid that contains genetic code

Question 6

Sexual reproduction

Answer 6

2 parents produce off spring that share characteristics of both parents

Question 7

Heredity

Answer 7

Transmission of characteristics from one generation to the other

Question 8

Metabolism

Answer 8

An organisms total activities that it preforms

Question 9

Producers

Answer 9

Organisms that produce their own food

Question 10

Consumers

Answer 10

Organisms that eat other organisms to get food

Question 11

Decomposers

Answer 11

Organisms that get their food by breaking down the nutrients in dead organisms

Question 12

Atom

Answer 12

Smallest component of an element

Question 13

Molecule

Answer 13

2 or more atoms joint together

Question 14

Proteins

Answer 14

A substance that has amino acids compounds and carbon hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen

Question 15

Enzymes

Answer 15

Protein created by an organism that increases the rate that chemical reactions occur

Question 16

Carbohydrates

Answer 16

A group of compounds made of sugars

Question 17

Simple carbohydrates

Answer 17

One sugar molecule or a few linked together

Question 18

Complex carbohydrates

Answer 18

Made of hundreds or thousands of sugar molecules

Question 19

Lipids

Answer 19

Compounds that can’t mix with water, they are fat and oily

Question 20

Phosopholids

Answer 20

Molecules that form much of the cell membrane

Question 21

Nucleic acids

Answer 21

Compounds made of subunits called nucleotides

Question 22

ATP

Answer 22

Major fuel for all cell activities that require energy

Question 23

Specialized

Answer 23

In multi cellular organisms group of cells have a specific function

Question 24

Biogenesis

Answer 24

The principal that living organisms originate only from other living organisms similar to themselves

Question 25

Cell

Answer 25

The basic structural unit of all organisms