Bio Vocab 1.1-1.2

A community of organisms and their physical environment

An inherited trait that gives an advantage to individual organisms and is passed on to future generations

The study of living things and their interactions with their environment.

An organized group of related parts that interacts to form a whole

All of the chemical processes that build up or break down materials.

The basic unit of Life

The maintenance of constant internal conditions in an organism

The genetic material that contains the information that determines inherited characteristics

An individual living thing

The knowledge obtained by observing natural events in order to discover facts