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Metabolism - is about all the chemical reactions present in an organism - one of which is the organism’s ability to break down food molecules to be utilized as a source of energy and raw materials to synthesize its own molecules. Example: Dissolves a piece of bread into simple nutrients your body can use, like glucose.
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Responsiveness - the ability of an organism to sense changes in its external or internal environment and be able to adjust to those changes. Example: How the body maintains its internal temperature to different limits despite great fluctuations within us in daily temperature.
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Movement - refers to the motion of the entire body, single cells including tiny structures inside the cell, and individual organs. Example: Circumduction is a movement of the limb, hand, or fingers in a circular movement, through the sequential combination of flexion, adduction, extension, and abduction motions.
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Growth - refers to the size or number of cells increase that produces an overall enlargement of all or part of an organism. Example: When a human is exercising, its muscle enlarges composed of larger muscle cells than those of an untrained muscle.
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Differentiation - refers to the changes an organism undergoes through time. Also, it is the development of a cell from an unspecialized to a specialized state. Example: A stem cell is an unspecialized cell that can be divided limitless within specific conditions, and differentiate into specialized cells. Such as, stem cells turning into neurons, osteocytes, or cardiomyocytes.
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Reproduction - refers to the formation of new cells or organisms for tissue growth, repair, or replacement. Being able to produce organisms, species will not undergo extinction. Example: The female’s ovary produces an egg (oogenesis) while the male produces sperm (spermatogenesis).