Sunday, December 5, 2010

Weekly Vocabualry Words - 12/6/10

1. Biovorous - An organism that can convert biological material into energy for sustenance.

2. Biostasis A state in which the cell's and tissue structure of an organism are preserved so that they can be restored again with the help of cell repair machines.

3. Abiotic stress - The non-living environmental factors like drought, extreme cold, heat, high winds that has negative effects on the organisms in a specific environment.

4. Anaerobe - The organisms that thrive and grow in an environment without oxygen.

5. Cytology - The branch of science under life science that deals with the study of cell structure, function and chemistry