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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