Characteristics of Living things

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Characteristics of Living things
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All living things have cells

• Basic unit of life
• Unicellular- made of only one cell
• Multicellular- made of 2 or more cells

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All living things have DNA inside of their cells

• Provides instructions for making proteins
• DNA is passed from parents to offspring
  (Heredity)
• Also called the instructions for life

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Living things use energy

• Take in energy from food/ sunlight
• Metabolism
• Ingestion digestion cellular respiration
  excretion

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Living things reproduce

• All living things come from other living things
• 2 Types
• Sexual- requires 2 parents to produce offspring
• Asexual- 1 parent to produce offspring

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Living things grow, develop and die

• Grow get larger
• Develop change in form (egg-tadpole-frog)
• Life span/cycle from birth to death

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Living things sense and respond to changes

• Change that affects an organism stimulus
• Ex- Light gravity
• Response- change caused by a stimulus
• Ex-Chill bumps sweating

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HOMEOSTASIS

• Maintain a stable internal environment
• When you are sick you want to go home stay