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vital functions

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  • In your own words, define what "autotrophic nutrition" means and provide an example.
    Happens when inorganic nutrients are taken in and used to produced organic nutrients.
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  • In your own words, define what "heterotrophic nutrition" means and provide an example.
    Happens when organic nutrients are obtained through food.
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  • What is the scientific process of taking in oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide? This process also generates energy.
    Respiration
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  • What is the scientific process of eliminating waste substances such as carbon dioxide and water?
    Excretion
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  • This vital human function is when living beings respond to internal or external changes.
    Interaction
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  • What are the three different stages of interaction?
    1) detecting stimuli: receptors, 2) preparing a response: coordination, 3) responding: effectors
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  • This vital human function is when living beings create new living beings that are either identical or similar to them.
    Reproduction
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  • This type of reproduction has only one parent producing a copy of itself.
    Asexual reproduction
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  • This type of reproduction involves one male and one female progenitor to produce a descendant similar to them.
    Sexual reproduction
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  • These special reproductive cells are necessary for sexual reproduction.
    Gametes
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  • What do you call a group of cells that form together to carry out the same function?
    Tissues
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  • What do you call a group of tissues that form together to carry out a broader function?
    Organs
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  • What do you call a group of organs that form together to carry out a more complex process?
    Systems
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  • Organisms are organised into five main groups based on the following factors, EXCEPT ONE:
    cell shape
    number of cells
    whether cells have tissues
    type of nutrition performed
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  • Which kingdom includes autotrophs?
    Kingdom Fungi
    Kingdom Chordata
    Kingdom Animalia
    Kingdom Plantae
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  • Which kingdom includes unicellular organisms?
    Kingdom Animalia
    Kingdom Plantae
    Kingdom Monera
    Kingdom Agmata
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