Biology Vocabulary

Biology

• the study of life

• an organism that makes its own energy (self-nourishment)

• anything that is NOT living and never was living

• the "brain" in the center of eukaryotic cells

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cell

• organisms with a TRUE nucleus!

• an organism that makes its own energy (self-nourishment)

• the smallest unit of living things

• any organism that is living or was once living

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biotic

• any organism that is living or was once living

• anything that is NOT living and never was living

• organisms with a TRUE nucleus!

• organisms that do not have a nucleus. they came BEFORE eukaryotic cells

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autotroph

• an organism that makes its own energy (self-nourishment)

• an organism made of only ONE cell (bacteria for example)

• an organism that has to get its energy/nourishment from eating DIFFERENT organisms

• organisms that do not have a nucleus. they came BEFORE eukaryotic cells

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heterotroph

• an organism that has to get its energy/nourishment from eating DIFFERENT organisms

• the smallest unit of living things

• an organism that makes its own energy (self-nourishment)

• an organism made of only ONE cell (bacteria for example)

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abiotic

• any organism that is living or was once living

• anything that is NOT living and never was living

• organisms with a TRUE nucleus!

• an organism made of MANY cells (animals for example)

nucleus

• an organism that has to get its energy/nourishment from eating DIFFERENT organisms

• an organism that makes its own energy (self-nourishment)

• an organism made of only ONE cell (bacteria for example)

• the "brain" in the center of eukaryotic cells

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eukaryotic

• the "brain" in the center of eukaryotic cells

• organisms with a TRUE nucleus!

• an organism that makes its own energy (self-nourishment)

• an organism made of only ONE cell (bacteria for example)

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unicellular

• an organism that has to get its energy/nourishment from eating DIFFERENT organisms

• organisms that do not have a nucleus. they came BEFORE eukaryotic cells

• an organism made of MANY cells (animals for example)

• an organism made of only ONE cell (bacteria for example)

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multicellular

• organisms that do not have a nucleus. they came BEFORE eukaryotic cells

• the smallest unit of living things

• an organism made of MANY cells (animals for example)

• organisms with a TRUE nucleus!

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