6 Themes of Biology

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• living things that are a single cell

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• living things that have more than one cell

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• homeostasis is an organism's ability to maintain stable internal conditions (like temperature)

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• Reproduction that involves two organisms (parents) combining DNA to form a new organism (offspring or child) 

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• reproduction involving only one organism (usually a unicellular organism) that creates a copy of itself (a clone) 

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• the theory that organisms with helpful traits will survive to have more offspring than organisms with less helpful traits

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• the study of how organisms interact with one another and their environment.   From the greek "eko" meaning "home" and "logy" meaning "study." 

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• All the living and non-living things in an area that interact with each other

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• organisms that make their own food (plants)

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• Organisms that eat other organisms to survive (all animals and fungi, some plants and unicellular organisms)