| A | B |
| nutrition | an organism takes in food and breaks it down for the body to use |
| heterotroph | an organism that must consume another organism to survive |
| autotroph | organisms that can make their own food. (plants) |
| respiration | energy is released from food during complex chemical reactions using oxygen |
| excretion | removal of waste products from an organism, (solid, liquid or gas) |
| growth | increase in size and number of cells in an organism |
| reproduction | process in which organisms give rise to offspring,new individual |
| sensitivity | ability to take in information from the environmentand respond to it |
| metabolism | all the chemical reactions that occur in an organism to maintain life |
| homeostasis | toability of an organism maintain conditions inside the body /Internal balance. |