Ch.1 Biology
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- Homeostasis
- Maintenance of a stable level of internal conditions even though environmental conditions are constantly changing
- Stimuli
- Physical or chemical reaction to an external or internal change
- Organization, Response to stimuli, homeostasis, metabolism, growth and development, reproduction, change through time
- The seven characteristics of living things
- Natural Selection
- Process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully then less well adapted organisms
- Biological Compounds
- Provide physical structure and bring about movement in an organism
- Organization
- Highest degree of order within an organism's internal and external parts
- Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya
- Three domains
- Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, Bacteria
- 6 Major Kingdoms
- Kingdoms
- 6 Major categories of grouping organisms
- Metabolism
- Sum of all chemical reactions that take in energy and materials
- Domains
- Major subdivisions of all organisms
- Atoms, molecules, organelles, cell, tissues, organs, organ system, organism
- Hierarchy of life