Zusammenfassung der Ressource
BIOLOGY:
The Variety of
Life
- CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING ORGANISMS
- NUTRITION
- The taking in of nutrients which are organic substances and
mineral ions, containing raw materials or energy for growth and
tissue repair, absorbing and assimilating them.
- EXCRETION
- The removal from organisms of toxic materials, the waste products
of metabolism (chemical reactions in cells including respiration) and
substances in excess of requirements.
- RESPIRATION
- The chemical reactions that break down nutrient
molecules in living cells to release energy.
- SENSITIVITY
- The ability to detect or sense changes in the
environment (stimuli) and to make responses.
- REPRODUCTION
- The processes that make more
of the same kind of organism.
- GROWTH
- A permanent increase in size and dry mass by
an increase in cell number or cell size or both
- MOVEMENT
- An action by an organism or part of an
organism causing a change of position or place.
- BINOMIAL SYSTEM
- Naming species as a system in which the scientific name of an
organism is made up of two parts showing the GENUS and SPECIES.
- VERTEBRATES
- BONEY FISH
- Fins, scales, gills,
external fertilisation.
- Herring (sea),
pike (freshwater).
- AMPHIBIANS
- Thin, moist skin, breathe through skin, small
lungs, external fertilisation, aquatic larvae.
- Frog, newt.
- REPTILES
- Hard scales, lungs, internal
fertilisation, soft-shelled eggs.
- Crocodiles, snakes, lizards.
- BIRDS
- Feathers, beaks, wings, lungs, internal
fertilisation, hard-shelled eggs.
- Stork, eagle, penguin.
- MAMMALS
- Hair/fur, lungs, internal fertilisation, feed young with milk
from mammary glands, viviparous (offspring kept inside
female's body and fed through placenta).
- Blue whale, bats, humans, lions.
- CLASSIFICATION GROUPS
- Kingdom
- Phylum
- Class
- Order
- Family
- Genus
- Species