Vocab Flashcards
Organism
A creature such as a plan or a single called life form or something that has a interdependent part
Stimuli
Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system
Homeostasis
The ability to maintain internal stability in an organism
Asexual reproduction
Singe parent produces off spring that are identical to parent
DNA
Necleic acid that contains genetic code
Sexual reproduction
2 parents produce off spring that share characteristics of both parents
Heredity
Transmission of characteristics from one generation to the other
Metabolism
An organisms total activities that it preforms
Producers
Organisms that produce their own food
Consumers
Organisms that eat other organisms to get food
Decomposers
Organisms that get their food by breaking down the nutrients in dead organisms
Atom
Smallest component of an element
Molecule
2 or more atoms joint together
Proteins
A substance that has amino acids compounds and carbon hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen
Enzymes
Protein created by an organism that increases the rate that chemical reactions occur
Carbohydrates
A group of compounds made of sugars
Simple carbohydrates
One sugar molecule or a few linked together
Complex carbohydrates
Made of hundreds or thousands of sugar molecules
Lipids
Compounds that can’t mix with water, they are fat and oily
Phosopholids
Molecules that form much of the cell membrane
Nucleic acids
Compounds made of subunits called nucleotides
ATP
Major fuel for all cell activities that require energy
Specialized
In multi cellular organisms group of cells have a specific function
Biogenesis
The principal that living organisms originate only from other living organisms similar to themselves
