ELEVATE Life Science 7th Grade Topic 1 Lesson 1 Vocabulary

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Organism

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Any single living thing

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cell

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The basic unit of structure and function of living things

All living things are either one cell or made of many cells

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unicellular

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an organism that is one cell

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multicellular

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an organism that is made up of many cells working together

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stimulus

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Any change in the environment that can make an organism react in some way

EXAMPLE: Sunflowers turning towards the light

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response

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an action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus

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spontaneous generation

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the false belief that life can come from non living things.

EXAMPLE: People used to believe that meat turned into maggots (baby flies)

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homeostasis

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the condition that an organism keeps stable inside itself; keeping the same conditions inside no matter what is hapening on the outside.

EXAMPLE: Human beings are in homeostasis when they are around 98.6 degrees