6 Characteristics of Living Things

1. Made Of Cells

A. Basic Building Blocks of Life

B. Cells come from other Living Things

C. Unicellular or Multicellular

D. Multicellular organisms may have specialized cells

2. All Living Things Are Able To Move

A. Need to find Food, Water, and Shelter

B. Avoid Danger

C. Plants will Move Toward Light

3. Living Things Perform Complex Activities

A. Ingestion

Ability to take in or create food

B. Digestion Ability to transform food into usable energy

C. Respiration

Ability to Breathe

D. ExcretionAbility to get rid of wastes; Carbon dioxide through respiration and excrement through ingestion and digestion

4. All Living Things Grow And Develop

A. Ability to become larger and more complex

B. Ability to have a life span

5. All Living Things Respond To Stimulus

A. Stimulus – What an Organism reacts to

B. Response – How an organism responds

6. All Living Things Reproduce

A. Organisms produce the same type of living thing

B. Sexual Reproduction – 2 Parents

1. Fusion

i. Two Parents fuse together to become the offspring

2. Procreation

i. Two parents produce offspring

ParameciumHumans

C. Asexual Reproduction – 1 Parent

1. Fission

i. One or more individuals are created by one parent

2. Fragmentation

Hydra

i. Parent breaks into different fragments Flatworms

3. Regenerationi. A small lost body part

can grow into the animal Sea Star