The Study of Life

A body of knowledge based on the study of nature

• Science

• Biology

• Organization

• Organism

Science of life; examines how living things interact, how systems function, and how they function at a molecular level

• Growth

• Science

• Biology

• Development

Anything that has or once had all the characteristics of life

• Organization

• Organism

• Homeostasis

• Adaptation

Orderly structure shown by living things

• Organism

• Species

• Reproduction

• Organization

Process that results in mass being added to an organism; may include formation of new cells and new structures

• Species

• Growth

• Development

• Reproduction

Changes an organism undergoes in its lifetime before reaching its adult form

• Growth

• Development

• Homeostasis

• Adaptation

Production of offspring

• Stimulus

• Growth

• Species

• Reproduction

A group of organism that can breed with one another and produce fertile offspring

• Species

• Stimulus

• Response

• Adaptation

Any change in an organism's internal or external environment that causes the organism to react

• Response

• Stimulus

• Adaptation

• Development

An organism's reaction to a stimulus

• adaptation

• homeostasis

• response

• Organism