Characteristics of Living Things

Made of cells

All living things are made of cells, the smallest unit of life.

Growth and Development

All living things get bigger and change over time.

Reproduction

Life comes from life, creation of offspring.

Respond to Stimulus in the Environment

Living things react to changes in the world.

Energy

Organisms get energy from food.

Maintaining Homeostasis

The body stays the same even when the outside changes.

Cell

Basic unit of life/ simplest form of life.

Stimulus

A CHANGE in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react.

Homeostasis

Process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment.

Sexual Reproduction

Reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete.

Asexual Reproduction

Process by which a single parent reproduces by itself.

Development

The process of orderly change that an individual goes through in the formation of structure.

Response

A REACTION in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus.

Organism

A living thing.

DNA

Living things contain genetic information in the form of DNA which encodes the information to make new living things of the same species.

Offspring

Product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents.

Water

Need to survive to be able to breakdown food, grow, reproduce, move substances.

Food

Need to survive.

Autotroph

An organism that makes its own food.

Heterotroph

Organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes.

Shelter

A place that provides protection from the weather, such as a house