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| homeostasis | the regulation of steady, life maintaining conditions inside an organisum cell, despite changes in its enviroment |
| development | all the changes undergone by living things as they grow |
| life span | the length of time an organism is expected to live |
| abiotic | factors: non'living phisical features of the enviromentm including soil, water, temperature, air, light, wind, and minerals |
| biotic | factors: living organisums in the enviroment, such as plants and animals |
| organism | a living thing that is made of one or more cells, uses energy, moves, responds to its enviroment , adjusts, reproduses, adapts, and has a life span |
| cell | the smallest unit of an organisum that can proform life funcions |
| stimulus | anything an orhanism responds to, such as sound, light, heat, viberating, odor, movement, hunger, thirst, etc. |
| response | the reation of an organism to a stimulus |
| adaptation | any characteristic of an organism that makes it better able to survive |
| control | in an experiment the strandard for comparison |
| theory | explanation of things based on may observations |
| law | a rule that describes a pattern in nature and what will happen under certian conditions |
| scientific methods | problem-solving procedures used by scientists; define the promblem, make a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, analyce the results, and draw conclusions |
| hypothesis | a problem that can be tested |
| variable | factor tested in an experiment |
| taxonomy | classification of living things |
| ecology | Deals with relationship of living organisms to their enviroment and to each other |
| genetics | branch of biology that deals with the principles of herity |
| cytology | study of cells, theit structure and function |
| physiology | study of functions of the different parts of living things |
| biochemestry | study of the substances and their changes in living things |
| microbiology | deals w/ living things to small to be seen w/ the naked eye |
| mycology | study of fugi |
| forestry | the science of cultivating forests and promoting the growth of forests |
| horticulture | the art/ science of cultivating fruits, flowers and veggies |
| mammalogy | the study of mammals |
| herpetology | the study of reptiles and amphibians |
| ornithology | the study of birds |
| icthyology | the study of fish |
| entomolgy | the study of insects |
| botany | the study of plants |
| zoology | the study of animals |
| biology | study of life |
| what does it mean to classify something? | to sort by their characteristics |
| all living things are made of _______ | cells |
| organisums | living things that can live on their own |
