INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY

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INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY

• Characteristics of Life

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Response and Adaptation

• All living things detect changes in the
  environment and respond
• includes migration, movement, color changes, etc.
• Adaptation is a way for an entire population of
  organisms to respond to long-term changes in
  their surroundings these are passed on from
  generation to generation

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Growth and Development

• Growth is an increase in size
• Development is a change in shape or form

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Reproduction

• Process by which new living things are formed

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Organization

• Living things are organized with the basic unit
  of organization being the cell

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Complex Chemistry

• All living thingseven the simplest life
  formshave complex chemistry and undergo many
  complicated chemical changes to stay alive they
  obtain and use substances and energy

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Homeostasis

• All living things are able to maintain a
  more-or-less constant internal environment.