characteristics of life

7 Characteristics all Living Things Share

• Made of cells

• Go through metabolism

• Go through Growth and Development

• Reproduce

• Maintain Homeostasis

• Evolve

• Are interdependent

All Living tHings Are Composed Of:

1.)

Cells

UniCellular

MultiCellular

2).

All living thingsuse energy

Metabolism

The sum of all reactions that take in and transform energy from the environment

Needed to obtain and use energy to grow, function, move and process information

3).

MaintainHomeostasis

Stable Interior Conditions

Even though exterior conditions are changing

4).Go through the Process ofGrowth and Development

Development

cell Division

5).

REPRODUCTION

Asexual

Benefits/disadvantages

• No mate available

• Cannot (as a species) adapt

Sexual - a new geneticcombination

Not essential for survival of an organism

essential for thesurvival of a species

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6).Change over time(evolution)

Change in the inherited characteristics of species over generations

Species = group of genetically similar Organisms

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7. InterdependentOrganisms in a biological community live

and interact with each other

Organisms are dependent on their environment and one another

Interdependent

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Autotroph

Heterotroph