Nutrition - answer✔the process by which organisms take in material from the environment and
change it into usable forms
Autotrophic nutrition - answer✔when an organism is able to make its own food
(photosynthesis)
Heterotrophic nutrition - answer✔when an organism must take in food from the environment
(consumers)
Ingestion - answer✔the direct taking in of nutrients
Digestion - answer✔the breaking down of nutrients
Absorption - answer✔taking nutrients into the cell through the cell membrane
Egestion - answer✔discharging of waste from the body
Transport - answer✔the process of distributing materials both in/out of cells and throughout an
organism
Respiration - answer✔process by which organisms obtain energy (ATP) that is stored in
nutrients
Synthesis - answer✔process of combining simple substances into more complex substances (to
build!)
Excretion - answer✔the removal of metabolic wastes
Regulation - answer✔process by which organisms respond to stimuli in the environment
Homeostasis - answer✔the maintenance of a stable internal environment
Metabolism - answer✔the sum of all of the chemical activities in an organism
Stimulus - answer✔a change in the environment that causes an organism to react
Circulation - answer✔Movement of blood through the body
Tissue - answer✔A group of similar cells that perform the same function.
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