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Life Functions 2010
Life Functions 2010
3. Transport
2. Respiration
4. Excretion
5. Regulation
6. Reproduction**
7. Growth
8. Synthesis
DO NOW:
• List the life functions and Describe a system or
structure in your body that performs or assists
you to perform this process.
1. Nutrition
The process in which food is obtained and
processed (modified) into nutrients, for
Energy
Growth and Repair.
Four Steps
Energy
+ Water
+
Carbon
Dioxide
Two types of Nutrition
Heterotrophic nutrition = organism
cannot make it’s own food
• Example – animals
Autotrophic nutrition = organisms make
their own food
PLANTS= photosynthesis
Nutrition involves these activities by
which organisms ….
1. Remove cellular waste products
2. Obtain and process materials needed for
other life activities
3. Exchange gases with their environment
4. Absorb and circulate materials
Respiration is best described as a
process by which….
1. Necessary nutrients are circulated
2. Hydrogen is used to synthesis glucose
3. Metabolic wastes are absorbed
4. Chemical energy is converted into a usable
form
The absorption of fluids by various
cells of the body is part of life
function known as
1. Excretion
2. Transport
3. Respiration
4. Growth
3. Transport Movement of materials
through the body &
within a cell
4. Excretion Removal of cellular
WASTES
Cellular wastes are by-
products of metabolic
activities (life processes)
performed by the cells within
an organism
Examples:
urea
water
Carbon dioxide
salt
5. Regulation
The process in which all of the
organism's life activities are
controlled and coordinated to
maintain equilibrium
6.Reproduction • Production of new
individuals
• As an individual, a
living thing doesn’t
have to reproduce for
individual survival
BUT must in order to
have species survival
7. Growth
Process in which there is an increase in cell
number NOT size (cell division)
AIM:
How does
our
metabolism
enable us to
live?
8 Life Functions
1. Nutrition
3. Circulation
2. Respiration
4. Excretion
5. Regulation
6. Reproduction**
7. Growth
8. Synthesis
8. Synthesis
The process in which the
body naturally creates
substances by combining
small molecules to create
larger molecules.
Is the set of chemical reactions (life
processes) that occur in living organisms
in order to maintain life
Specific proteins in the body control metabolism.
Balanced internal
environment
A.D.A.M.
Homeostasis
• Constant Balance, Steady State or
Dynamic Equilibrium
1. autotrophs
2. producers
3. algae
4. heterotrophs
Which process includes all three?
1. Synthesis
2. Metabolism
3. Excretion
4. Nutrition
Homeostatic regulation of the body Is
made possible through coordination
of all body systems.
This coordination is achieved mainly by…
1. Respiratory and reproductive systems
2. Skeletal and excretory systems
3. Nervous and endocrine systems
4. Circulatory and digestive systems
Which situation is not an example of
the maintenance of a dynamic
equilibrium in an organism?
1. Guard cells contribute to the regulation of
water content in a geranium plant.
2. Water passes into an animal cell causing it to
swell.
3. The release of insulin lowers the blood sugar
level in a human after eating a big meal.
4. A runner perspires while running a race on a
hot summer day.
How does metabolism enable
us to live?
THE END