Characteristics of Living Things Flashcard

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Characteristic shared by all living things: Growth and development, Inability to reproduce, Lack of response to stimuli, Absence of metabolism

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Growth and development

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What is the basic unit of life?

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cell

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What is a change or signal in the environment that makes an organism react in some way?

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Stimulus

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What do producers use for their energy source?

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sunlight

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An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms is called: Producer, Consumer, Decomposer, Autotroph

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Consumer

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Belief that living things come from nonliving things (e.g., flies from spoiled meat).

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Spontaneous generation

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What was the name of the Italian scientist that proved the idea of spontaneous generation wrong?

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Francesco Redi

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What are the basic needs all living things must have?

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Food, water, shelter, air, and homeostasis

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The maintenance of stable internal conditions is called?

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homeostasis

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The process of grouping things based on their similarities is called:

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Classification