Matching Pairs Characteristics of Life MatchOnline version assignment by Benjamin D Morgan 1 Dependent Variable 2 Energy 3 Characteristics of Life 4 asexual reproduction 5 Independent Variable 6 organism 7 Biology 8 stimulus 9 sexual reproduction 10 cells 11 response 12 Controlled variable 13 examples of stimulus 14 How single cell organisms grow? 15 Not a controlled variable 16 How do multicelled organisms grow? What is kept the same in an experiment Grows and develops, Uses energy Reproduces Responds to Stimuli Made of one or more cells the reaction from a stimulus Cell size grows Increase the number and size of their cells. Something that causes a living thing to react or respond. The ability to cause change or do work The one item we make different in an experiment What we measure in an experiment Things that do not effect the outcome of the experiment an individual form of life heat, sunlight, weather, nutrient (food) availability Requires two parents and will receive half of each parents DNA. The study of living things building blocks of life. All life processes take place in this. where a single organism can reproduce by itself