1. CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE

2. ORGANIZATION
Living things organize protoplasm into cells (the basic building blocks of life)
Cells makeup organisms which are unicellular or multicellular

3. GROW AND DEVELOP Growth: increase in the organism’s number of cells.
Development - series of orderly changes that occur in an organism throughout its life cycle from beginning to maturity. (changes in cells)
Metamorphosis: complete or incomplete

4. ENERGY Energy required for maintenance, growth, reproduction etc.
Energy – 1. the ability to do work
2. comes from the sun
3. energy converted to food by green plants
4. plants and animals obtain energy from food
Metabolism refers to all chemical
reactions occurring in an organism

5. REPRODUCTION
Produces offspring leading to survival of the species not an individual organism.
Asexual reproduction; 1 parent, offspring genetically identical. Examples: budding, fission
Sexual reproduction: 2 parents, offspring genetically different

6. EVOLUTION Things change over time.
This allows organisms to adapt to new environments allowing survival

7. ADAPTATION
Adaptations – allows organisms to live in their environment.
Inherited – the best suited organisms survive, reproduce and pass on their beneficial traits.
Plants and animals survive because changes have taken place.

8. RESPONSE TO STIMULUS A reaction to an environmental stimulus
is the response
a. Stimuli such as light, food, temperature,
water cause a response
b. Responses are the reactions to the stimuli:
moving towards food or away from harmful
chemicals.
Responses improve chances of survival
Homeostasis maintenance of a steady internal
environment (regulation)

9. OGER EAR 7 characteristics of living organisms O organization
G growth and development
E energy
R reproduction
E evolution
A adaptation
R response to stimulus

10. Besides the basic characteristics of life there are also certain activities that living organisms carry on that are called life processes.
If any of these activities except reproduction stops for any length of time, the organism dies. If reproduction does not occur, that type of organism (species) may die out or become extinct.

11. LIFE PROCESSES

12. 1. Nutrition
Activities by which an organism obtains food from the environment (ingestion) and breaks it down into a form that can be absorbed and used by its cells (digestion)

13. 2. Transport
The absorption and distribution (circulation) of essential materials throughout the organism

14. 3. Excretion
Process by which wastes of metabolism are removed from the organism.
Black Bear Feces

15. 4. Synthesis
The process by which simple molecules are combined chemically to form more complex molecules.

16. 5. Regulation
Number of coordinated activities that serve to maintain internal stability(homeostasis) in a constantly changing environment by enabling the organism to respond to the environmental changes (sensitivity)

17. 6. Respiration
The releasing of energy from food by a complex series of chemical reactions.
Respiration generally requires the presence of oxygen. (aerobic vs. anaerobic)
mitochondria

18. 7. Movement
Ability of entire organism or a part of the organism to move

19. 8. Reproduction
The process by which an organism gives rise to offspring - new individuals of the same kind.
a. sexual - exchange of hereditary material between two different organisms and offspring are not identical to either parent.
b. asexual - new individual is identical to the parent among even closely related organisms there are always some differences, this is what makes each of us individuals, these differences are called variation.

20. 9. Growth
The increase in the size of the organism resulting from the synthesis of food substances into new materials and new structures.

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