lunes, 25 de agosto de 2014

physical science

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Biology I

types of cellsThe 7 Characteristics of Life:
 1. Living Things are Composed of Cells:
  • Single-cell organisms have everything they need to be self-sufficient.
  • In multicellular organisms, specialization increases until some cells do only certain things.
2. Living Things Have Different levels of cellular organizationLevels of Organization:
  • Both molecular and cellular organization.
  • Living things must be able to organize simple substances into complex ones.
  • Living things organize cells at several levels:
     
    • Tissue - a group of cells that perform a common function.
    • Organ - a group of tissues that perform a common function.
    • Organ system - a group of organs that perform a common function.
    • Organism - any complete living thing.















3. Living Things Use Energy: Earth's energy source is the Sun
  • Living things take in energy and use it for maintenance and growth.

4. Living Things Respond To Their Environment:
  • Living things will make changes in response to a stimulus in their environment.
  • A behavior is a complex set of responses.
  5. Living Things Grow: 
  • Cell division - the orderly formation of new cells.
  • Cell enlargement - the increase in size of a cell. Cells grow to a certain size and then divide.
  • An organism gets larger as the number of its cells increases.
6. Living Things Reproduce: reproduction
  • Reproduction is not essential for the survival of individual organisms, but must occur for a species to survive.
  • All living things reproduce in one of the following ways:
    • Asexual repoduction - Producing offspring without the use of gametes.
    • Sexual reproduction - Producing offspring by the joining of sex cells.
7. Living Things Adapt To Their Environment:
  • Adaptations are traits giving an organism an advantage in a certain environment.
  • Variation of individuals is important for a healthy species.
Questions:
1.      Do all living things have all of the characteristics of life? If your answer is no, give an example.
2.      Name some non-living thing that uses energy.
3.      Name some non-living thing that grows.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~klathrop/7characterisitcs_of_life.htm