Bio Chapter 1 Vocab
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- Biology
- The study of life`
- Organism
- Anything capable of carrying on life processes
- Community
- An assortment of life forms within a given place where all the organisms interact and depend on each other in different ways
- Energy
- The ability to do work
- Producers
- Organisms that make food
- Chlorophyll
- A green substance in producers that traps sunlight
- Consumers
- Organisms that don't make their own food
- Food Chain
- When food is passed from producers to a series of consumers
- Decomposers
- Comsumers that eat waste and dead remains
- Evolution
- Change in organisms over time
- Adaptation
- A physical trait that helps an organism survive in it's environment
- Reproduction
- The production of offspring
- Growth
- An increase in the amount of living material in an organism
- Development
- The series of changes an organism undergoes to reach it's final adult form
- Homeostasis
- The steady state of the internal operation of an organism regarless of external changes
- Organization
- when all organisms come together and interact with each other to create a single orderly living system
- Cellular Respiration
- The process in which organisms convert the energy in glucose and other sugars into usable forms of energy
- Photosynthesis
- Process in which carbon dioxide and water are combined in the presence of sunlight and water to produce simple sugars and give off oxygen