Rice Biology Unit one

Biology

Scientific study of life

Cell

Smallest until of life some can reproduce as part of a multicellular organism, others do so on their own

Homeostasis

Process of how organisms keep their internal conditions within tolerable ranges by sensing and responding to change

Metabolism

Enzyme meidated chemical reactions which helps cells build and breakdown organic molecules

Inheritance

Transmisson to offspring from DNA

DNA

Deoxyribone nucleic acids, contains hereditary information that guides development and other activities

Growth

In multicellular species, an increase in the number, size,and volume of cells

Development

The multi step process by which the first cell of a new multi celled organism gives rise to an adult

stimulus

any chare or signal in the envoirnment that causes a living thing to react

Response

How a living thing acts, moves or changes inside after it notices a change in its envoirnemnt

Virus

Non-cellular,infectious particles of protein and nucleic acid repilicates only in host cells

Adaptive Trait

a form of inheritable traits that increases ones fitness in a particular envoirnment