Biology

2. involves activities that control and coordinate an organism: they help maintain homeostasis
6. producing new offspring identical to the parents:involves one parent
7. removal of an organisms metabolic waste
8. chemical substances in food that an organism needs
9. something capable of living on its own
11. process by which materials enter and leave cells or get moved around in the organism
13. producing new offspring: either identical to or different from the parents
15. involves all the chemicals reactions carried on in an organism
17. the taking in of food

1. how an organism takes materials from the environment and converts them to something it can use
2. the process of releasing chemical energy from complex reactions
3. the breakdown of food materials into simpler forms
4. the study of life
5. involves two parents: offspring is not identical to the parent
10. increase in the size of an organism
12. condition of maintaining a constant internal environment
14. involves getting rid of undigested food from the body
16. combining substances to make more complex substances