Biology 2024 Vocabulary

a body of knowledge based on the study of nature

• Technology

• Biology

• Science

• Engineering

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

• Life Science

• Biology

• Science

• Environmental Science

anything that has or once had all the characteristics of life

• Individual

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Organism

orderly structure shown by living things

• Organization

• Growth

• Development

• Structure

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

• Growth

• Development

• Heredity

• Mass

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

• Growth

• Development

• Heredity

• Adaptation

production of offspring

• Offspring

• Heredity

• Reproduction

• Genes

a group of organisms that can breed with one another and produce fertile offspring

• Organism

• Community

• Population

• Species

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

• Response

• Stimulus

• Reaction

• Homeostasis

an organism's reaction to a stimulus

• Response

• Reaction

• Stimulus

• Homeostasis