1. Living Things Vocabulary Use the word bank on the board
Chapter 2
Living Things Vocabulary
Use the word bank on the board

2. Section 1

3. The basic unit of structure and function in living things…

4. Cells

5. a living thing..

6. Organism

7. organisms made up of more than one cell..

8. Multicellular

9. organisms made of a single cell….

10. Unicellular

11. a change in an organism’s surrounding that causes the organism to react….

12. Stimulus

13. an organism that makes its own food…

14. Autotroph

15. the process of change that occurs during an organism’s life to produce a more complex organism….

16. Development

17. the maintenance of stable internal condition in an organism…

18. Homeostasis

19. an organism that cannot make its own food…

20. Heterotroph

21. an action or change in behavior that occurs in reaction to a stimulus…

22. Response

23. Section 2

24. the mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources….

25. Spontaneous Generation

26. consists of pairs of choices; used to classify items in the natural world…..

27. Dichotomous key

28. a classification grouping that consists of a number of similar
a classification grouping that consists of a number of similar. Closely related species…

29. Genus

30. an organism whose cells lack a nucleus and some other cell structures…

31. Prokaryote

32. an organism whose cells contain nuclei…

33. Eukaryote

34. the process of grouping things based on their similarities…

35. Classification

36. a group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce…

37. Species

38. the control center of an eukaryotic cell that directs the cell’s activities and contains the information that determines the cell’s form and function…

39. Nucleus

40. the system for naming organism in which each organism is given an unique, two-part scientific name (genus and species)…

41. Binomial nomenclature

42. the scientific study of how living things are classified…

43. Taxonomy