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| individual adaptation | an adjustment an individual organism makes to environmental change |
| cells | the basics units of life |
| homeostasis | keeping a constant internal environment |
| metabolism | tearing down & building up organic molecules |
| sexual reproduction | 2 parents involved so there is greater variety produced |
| asexual reproduction | one parent involved with little variety in offspring |
| multicellular | organisms with more than one cell |
| unicellular | one celled organisms |
| growth | getting larger |
| development | changing size, proportions, and functions |
| binomial nomenclature | 2 name naming system of science |
| Carolus Linnaeus | first scientist to use binomial nomenclature |
| kingdoms | Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, & Animalia |
| phylum | subdivisions of kingdoms that include Chordata & Arthropoda |
| class | subdivisions of phylums including Mammalia & Insecta |
| prokaryotes | primitive cells without a nucleus and membrane bound organelles |
| order | subdivisions of classes that include Primates & Coleoptera |
| family | subdivisions of orders such as Hominidae & Carabidae |
| genus | subdivisions of families such as Homo |
| species | subdivisions of genera such as Homo sapiens |
| Fungi | kingdom of eukaryotic saprophytic consumers with cell walls |
| Protista | kingdom of unicellular & colonial eukaryotic simple organisms |
| Monera | kingdom of bacteria & blue-green-algae |
| Animalia | kingdom of heterotrophic multicellular complex organisms |
| Plantae | kingdom of autotrophic multicellular complex organisms |
| stimulus | anything that will cause a response in an organism |
| response | what an organism does when a stimulus is given |
| irritability | ability of an organism to respond to stimuli |
| population adaptations | traits in a population that increase its chances of survival |
| taxonomy | science of naming |
| classification | dividing organims into categories according to characteristics |
| eukaryotes | cells with a nucleus & membrane bound organelles |
