Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Characteristics of Living Things
- Respond to Stimuli
- A stimulus change in the environment that an organism can
detect
- An example is a man seeing a lion
would cause him to run away from
the lion.
- Made of Cells
- Cells are the basic unit of life and function of living organisms
- There are multicellular and unicellular organisms all around the
globe that have different purposes to help the enviorment
- Use Energy
- Autotrophs use energy from the sun to form their own.
- Energy is needed for organisms to carry out their daily functions
- Made of Chemicals
- The chemicals are lipids,carbohydrates,nucleic acid and proteins
- it also includes water which is the most abundant of the chemicals.
- Grow and Develop
- Grow means to physically get bigger
- Develop means to change and become more complex mentally
- Reproduce
- Reproduce means to create a new organism from an existing
organism
- If a species stops reproducing than it will eventually go
extinct and that not very good