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Homeostasis
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The ability of the body or a cell to seek and maintain a condition of equilibrium orstability within its internal environment when dealing with external changes
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Metabolism
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The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
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Stimulus
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That which can evoke a response or has an influence on a system to act.
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Ecology
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The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
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Abiotic
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Non living
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Biotic
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Living
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Biome
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A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat.
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Biospher
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regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth or other planet occupied by living organisms.
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Symbiosis
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Doesbnt harm other while one benifts
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Paratism
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Web definitions
the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it
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Commensalism
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N association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
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Scavenger
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N animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse
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Carbohydrate
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Noun
Any of a large group of compounds (including sugars, starch, and cellulose) which contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen and can be broken...
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Lipid
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/ˈlipid/
Noun
Any of a class of organic compounds that are fatty acids or their derivatives and are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents...
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Protein
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Protein
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