Living things

• To find out the life processes of something, you use the technique 'MRS GREN'.
• (MRS GREN)

  1. Movement - It can move
• (MRS GREN)

  2. Restoration - It needs air to breathe.
• (MRS GREN)

  3. Sensitivity - It has senses.
• (MRS GREN)

  4. Growth - It can grow
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  5. Reproduction - It can reproduce
• (MRS GREN)

  6. Excretion - it can excrete waste
• (MRS GREN)

  7. Nutrition - It needs water and food
• A heterotroph is something that obtains energy from feeding on other things
• An autotroph is something that can make its own food
• All living organisms - Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
• You can remember the order of all living organisms using the technique 'Denmark King Plays Chess On Fine Grain Sand'.
• When naming species, the first word starts with a capital, whereas the second starts with a lowercase letter.
• The genus name is the first part of the name of a species. It is always capitalized.
• The genus name is followed by the species name. It starts with a lowercase letter.
• Plants are autotrophs because they have chloroplasts, which contains chlorophyll.
• Photosynthesis - the process through which plants make their food to obtain energy.
• In photosynthesis, photo means light, whilst synthesis means combine.
• In the word 'prokaryotes', pro means before and karyotes means nucleus.
• prokaryotes do not have a nucleus.
• In the word 'eukaryotes', eu means true, and karyotes mean nucleus.
• eukaryotes have a nucleus
• The scientist Carl Linnaeus came up with the idea of classifying organisms