| A | B |
| All living things are made of | Cells |
| All the various chemical activities that cells undergo | Metabolism |
| Living things maintain a fairly stable environment | Homeostasis |
| Living things pass hereditary information to new organisms of the same type in the process of | Reproduction |
| Not considered living | Viruses |
| Obtainng nutirents from the environment and breaking them down | Nutrition |
| Releasing chemical energy stored in food | Cellular respiration |
| Combining substances into more complex molecules | synthesis |
| Increasing in size or number of cells | Growth |
| Removing metabolic (made in the body) waste products | Excretion |
| Molecules containing both carbon and hydrogen | Organic |
| Molecules that do not contain both carbon and hydrogen | inorganic |
| Specialized cells are grouped into | Tissues |
| Different kinds of tissues may be joined to form an | Organ |
| Several organs may work together to form an | Organ System |