Characteristics of Living Things
Cards (10)
- Unicellular vs Multicellular
- Increase in cell size and/or number
- Includes: development, aging, death
- Metabolism (sum of all chemical reactions)
- An organism that produces its own food such as plants, algae, some bacteria, and phytoplankton (obtains & use energy)
- An organism that does not make its own food such as animals, fungi, most protozoa, and most bacteria (obtains & use energy)
- Ability to pass genetic information
- need one parent to have organism (Reproduces)
- need two parent to have organism (Reproduces)
- All living things can respond to stimuli in the external environment