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.
Hair/fur, lungs, internal fertilisation, feed young with milk
from mammary glands, viviparous (offspring kept inside
female's body and fed through placenta).