Bio Unit 1

The scientific study of living things and their interactions with their environment. Life

• Biology

• Evolution

• Organism

Any individual (one) living thing

• Biology

• Organism

• Adaptation

The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life (break down food, build up muscle)

• Biology

• Metabolism

• Adaptation

The basic unit of life, can be unicellular or multicellular

• Cell

• Stimulus

• Adaptation

The maintenance of constant internal conditions in an organism. Balance, just right

• Homeostasis

• Organism

• Cell

The change in living things over time

• Evolution

• Biology

• Stimulus

An inherited trait that gives an advantage to individual organisms and is passed on to future generations. For example, fur in cold climates

• Adaptation

• Homeostasis

• Stimulus

A thing or event that evokes a reaction in an organ or tissue. Bright light causes our pupils to constrict

• Stimulus

• Biology

• Cell

The smallest basic unit of matter

• Element

• Atom

• Molecule

an atom that has gained or lost one or more valence electrons

• Ion

• Molecule

• Atom