Fundamentals of life

PC1004

Full names: Ana Paola Lagunas Mota

ID’s: A01424301
Date: 27/08/20 Group: 2

Characteristics of living beings

How to identify what is alive?
1. Complete Table 1 as asked:
Table 1. Characteristics of living matter (living things) and inert matter (inanimate objects).
Name of a living being: a wolf Name of an inanimate object: an android

Write at least 10 characteristics that Write at least 10 characteristics that

describe it: describe it.
1. it breaths 1. made up of materialS that are also
inanimate objects
2. has a metabolism
2.doesnt need to breathe
3. it grows up
3. it doesn’t reproduce
4. it reproduces
4.doesnt have a metabolism
5. it feels
5. its reaction is according to the program
6.it reacts
not actions nor situations
7. works in groups just like it
6. it can be programmed or manipulated
8. it has an instinct to survive
7. it does not think
9. that means in some way it thinks
8.it does not feel
10. it dies
9. some can have an artificial life which is
different
10. it does not die, it can be destroyed or
unistalled
Which characteristics would prove that it is Which characteristics would prove that it is
alive? NOT alive?
The fact that is made up of a complex cell Proving the opposite characteristics of what
system, has needs like eating and makes an object alive like not even having
reproducing, and has reactions according to cells or growing means it is not alive
actions is enough proof that it is alive

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Conclusion: an object that does not have the capacity to reproduce, grow up, react or does
not have a metabolism to process energy which it needs and it does not have a cell system
including just one or a complex system which forms up tissue which forms an organ and an
organ makes up a system, so on until it creates the being, if it doesn’t have those
characteristics for starters then I can’t be a living thing

2. Review the topic of the characteristics of living things in the following reference books: GCSE
Biology, and Biology OpenStax, and organize them in the Venn Diagram as follows: similar,
identical, different.

Identical

It studies the
I guess both Studies the
organisms
study on the properties of life
and structure terms of like the order of
of life beings,
describing a things, stimuli,
it has several
living being and reproduction,
topics like
its characteristics growth,
cells, or
adaptation,etc
animals

Gcse Biology
biology open stax

3. Match the columns of the descriptions of each of the basic characteristics of living things with
the corresponding concept:
1 Living beings' ability to keep their internal environment in
balance. ( 3 ) Irritability

2 Perpetuating or continuing a specie is the main objective of … (6 ) Movement

3 The ability of living beings to respond to physical and chemical ( 7 ) Evolution

stimuli that are presented in the environment in which they live.

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4 It includes a series of processes that make it possible for living (5 ) Organization

beings to obtain, use and dispose matter and energy from and to
the environment in which they live.

5 The ability of living beings to increase the number and / or size of ( 1) Homeostasis
their cells, and to change due to the maturation and
deterioration of their structures.

6 In living beings there is mechanical displacement of some or all ( 4 ) Metabolism

of its structures which can be internal or external.

7 The ability of living beings to modify their structures or behaviors ( 2 ) Reproduction

in order to adapt to the conditions of the environment in which
they develop.

8 Characteristic of living beings that indicates that they are made ( 8 ) Growth and
up of at least one cell. development

References (write here the sources you reviewed to complete the activity, in APA format)

1.2 Themes and Concepts of Biology - Biology 2e. (n.d.). Retrieved August
27, 2020, from https://openstax.org/books/biology-2e/pages/1-2-themes-
and-concepts-of-biology

BBC. (n.d.). GCSE Biology (Single Science). Retrieved August 27, 2020,
from https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z9ddmp3

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