six characteristics of life

• Organization in an organism refers to specific interrelationships among individual parts of an organism and how these parts interact to perform specific functions.
• Metabolism is the ability of an organism to utilize energy to perform other vital functions.
• Responsiveness is the organism’s ability to detect changes in its external/internal environment and to adjust to those changes accordingly.
• Growth in an organism is an increase in the size or number of cells to produce an overall enlargement of either the entire organism or one of its components.
• Development refers to the changes an organism experiences over time, starting from fertilization and ending at its death.
• Differentiation is the changes a cell experiences as it starts as a immature and generalized state to a mature specialized state.
• Reproduction is the formation of new cells or new organisms.