Characteristics of living organisms

• Living organisms


  Require nutrition, require maintenance to provide energy, need minerals for growth and repair, respire, excrete waste, respond to their surroundings, move, maintain internal conditions, reproduce, and grow and develop
• Nutrition


  • Provided by caretakers
• Respiration


  • Organisms release energy by a process called respiration
• Excretion


  • Carbon dioxide
  • Urine
• Maintain internal conditions


  Maintain temperature and water content
• Reproduction


  Organisms have the ability to produce offspring in order to survive and ensure the survival of their species
• Even the smallest organisms grow and develop to their adult form