6th Topic 1: Living Things in the Biosphere

Any living thing

• domain
• organism
• stimulus
• characteristics

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A feature that helps to identify something

• cells
• organism
• characteristics
• response

The basic unit of structure and function in living things

• binomial nomenclature
• species
• classification
• cells

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

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A single-celled organism; one cell carries out functions necessary to stay alive

• unicellular
• multicellular
• stimulus
• response

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

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Organisms that consist of many cells

• unicellular
• multicellular
• evolution
• determine

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

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Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way

• taxonomy
• response
• stimulus
• genus

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

An action or change in behavior

• vaccine
• stimulus
• convergent evolution
• response

The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources

• spontaneous generation
• convergent evolution
• tissues
• characteristics

The maintenance of stable internal conditions

• taxonomy
• homeostasis
• organism
• cells

A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce

• bacteria
• virus
• species
• taxonomy

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