Living and Non living Vocabulary

Homeostasis

• The transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.

• Something the is the same.

• The condition in which an organism’s internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment.

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Organism

• A living thing.

• The material structure of an individual life form.

• A whole with interdependent parts, likened to a living being.

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Cell

• A rigid supporting layer that surrounds the cells of plants and some other organisms.

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• The basic unit of structure and function in living things.

• A widely accepted explanation of the relationship between cells and living things.

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Spontaneous Generation

• The archaic theory that utilized this process to explain the origin of life.

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• The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources.

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Classification

• The arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities (including at least kingdom and phylum in animals, division in plants, and class, order, family, genus, and species)

• The process of grouping things based on their similarities.

Species

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• A category of living things that ranks below a genus, is made up of related individuals able to produce fertile offspring, and is identified by a two-part scientific name

• A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.

• a new kind of plant or animal species is created

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Convergent Evolution

• To draw a connection between two or more things.

• The process by which unrelated organisms evolve similar characteristics.

• A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other

• Describes something that is made of a mixture of different parts or elements.

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Virus

• Submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.

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• A tiny, nonliving particle that enters and then reproduces inside a living cell

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Vaccine

• The change of state from a liquid to a gas.

• A substance that consists of pathogens that have been weakened or killed but can still trigger the body to produce chemicals that destroy the pathogens.

• Usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.

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Resistant

• Not affected, harmed, or destroyed by something.

• The process by which a cell makes a copy of the DNA in its nucleus before cell division

• When one variable is dependent on another variable.

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