Living things are made of cells and have key characteristics including taking in nutrients, using energy, producing waste, responding to stimuli, growing, and reproducing. They obtain nutrients from food, use cellular respiration to release energy from food, and have structures to remove waste. Organisms can be unicellular, consisting of a single cell, or multicellular, made of many cells. Unicellular organisms remove waste through membranes while multicellular organisms use body systems.
Living things are made of cells and have key characteristics including taking in nutrients, using energy, producing waste, responding to stimuli, growing, and reproducing. They obtain nutrients from food, use cellular respiration to release energy from food, and have structures to remove waste. Organisms can be unicellular, consisting of a single cell, or multicellular, made of many cells. Unicellular organisms remove waste through membranes while multicellular organisms use body systems.
Living things are made of cells and have key characteristics including taking in nutrients, using energy, producing waste, responding to stimuli, growing, and reproducing. They obtain nutrients from food, use cellular respiration to release energy from food, and have structures to remove waste. Organisms can be unicellular, consisting of a single cell, or multicellular, made of many cells. Unicellular organisms remove waste through membranes while multicellular organisms use body systems.
Living things are made of cells and have key characteristics including taking in nutrients, using energy, producing waste, responding to stimuli, growing, and reproducing. They obtain nutrients from food, use cellular respiration to release energy from food, and have structures to remove waste. Organisms can be unicellular, consisting of a single cell, or multicellular, made of many cells. Unicellular organisms remove waste through membranes while multicellular organisms use body systems.
¡ Cell: the basic structural and functional unit of life. They have structures that enable them to carry out life processes. ¡ Life processes include: ¡ Chemical reactions to help obtain and use energy ¡ Break down nutrients ¡ Build molecules ¡ Grow ¡ Copy genetic material ¡ Repair injuries ¡ Excretes wastes
Living things take in nutrients
¡ Nutrients are substances that living things need but cannot make for themselves. ¡ Usually obtained from food ¡ Consumers eat other organisms for food (ex. Humans) ¡ Producers produce their own food (ex. Plants)
Living things use energy
¡ Energy is used to carry out life processes, it comes from the food consumed or produced ¡ Cellular respiration is the process where energy is released from food ¡ Energy is used for many purposes (ex. Growing, response to changes, movement, sleep)
Living things produce waste that must be removed
¡ All cells have structures that store and remove waste ¡ Waste are substances that are harmful if they are not removed
Unicellular vs Multicellular organisms
¡ Unicellular organisms are ONE cell organisms (ex. Bacteria and some protists) ¡ Waste is removed through the outer membrane or from a structure called a vesicle ¡ Multicellular organisms are made up of many cells ¡ Waste is removed from structures or systems of the organism
Living things respond to stimuli
¡ A stimulus is anything that causes a living thing to react in a certain way ¡ Living things respond to internal stimuli- things that occur inside their bodies (ex. Stomach growling, feeling thirsty) ¡ They also respond to external stimuli from their surroundings (ex. Dog ears flick up to noise at the door) 1.1 Characteristics of Living Things Name:
Living things grow
¡ All living things grow by increasing in size, or in the number or cells, or BOTH
Living things reproduce
¡ Organisms reproduce in different ways: ¡ Unicellular bacteria divide to produce two identical cells. They have the same genetic material. ¡ Other organisms must have a mate to reproduce. The offspring differ from parents.
Unicellular vs Multicellular organisms
¡ Unicellular organisms ¡ Have structures to sense and respond to changes in their environment ¡ Grow by increasing in size ¡ Multicellular organisms ¡ Multicellular animals have sense organs and/or a nervous system to respond to stimuli ¡ Grow by increasing number of cells