Characteristics of

Life
Cellular Organization
All cells have the same basic structure:

Membrane that encloses the cell and

controls materials that move in and out
Internal fluid known as the cytoplasm
where the organelles are suspended
Nucleus that contains the hereditary
genes called DNA.
Cellular Organization
Organisms can either be made up of only one cell (unicellular) or
made up if many cells (multicellular)
 Metabolism
The sum of all chemical
processes that maintain the
living state of an organism
All organisms use energy to
grow and all organisms
transport this energy from
one place to another within
cells using special energy-
carrying molecules called
ATP.
 Homeostasis
A process where organisms act
to keep their interior conditions
relatively constant
 Reproduction
SEXUAL Reproduction involves ASEXUAL
Two parents contributing the transfer of genetic
Offspring that are
genetic information to information from
genetically identical
produce a unique parents to offspring to a single parent
offspring
 Heredity
DNA carries information that determines what an
individual organism would be like.

Each set of instruction DNA is called gene.

The transmission of characteristics from parent to

offspring is called heredity.