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What is life?
Metabolism-carry out chemical reactions to live
Reproduction-all living organisms can produce offspring
Continuity of life/ biogenesis?
All livings things arise from preexisting living things
Five characteristics?
Sensitivity
Nutrition
Organisation
Reproduction
Excretion
Sensitivity?
Is the ability of an organism to detect and react to changes in its external and internal environment
Nutrition?
The way an organism obtains and uses food
Autotroph- makes food
Heterotroph-consumes food, unable to make it
Organisation?
All living organisms are composed of cells
Cells-tissue-organ-system-living organism-population=species-community-biosphere
Reproduction?
The formation of new living organisms of the same species
Excretion?
The removal of metabolic waste from the body
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Mikahbear
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The Characteristics of Life
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12/12/2013, 8:31:38 PM
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