CHARACTERISTICS of LIVING THINGS FOLDABLE Use Information & Image to Help you Construct Foldable You can Also Google Other Examples! Biology – Hunt 2015

Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction

REPRODUCTION Reproduction is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parents". Reproduction is a basic feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction.

Asexual reproduction 1 PARENT - MITOSIS OFFSPRING GENETICALLY IDENTICAL Chromosome # the SAME NO MEIOSIS or FERTILIZATION single-celled organisms archaea, bacteria, & protists. Many plants & fungi reproduce asexually

Sexual Reproduction 2 PARENTS - MEIOSIS GENETIC DIVERSITY/VARIATION GAMETES - SPERM & EGG Each Have ½ CHROMOSOME # FERTILIZATION: ALMOST ALL ANIMALS & PLANTS

CELLS Cell - Latin cella - meaning "small room” is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all living organisms. Smallest unit of life that can replicate independently, and are often called the "building blocks of life".

UNICELLULAR SIMPLE SINGLE-CELLED Having or consisting of ONE CELL PROTISTS & BACTERIA

MULTICELLULAR COMPLEX Having or Consisting of MORE THAN ONE CELL PLANTS, ANIMALS, HUMANS

MAIN SOURCE of ENERGY

PRODUCERS AUTOTROPHS MAKE their OWN FOOD PLANTS & Some Algae PHOTOSYNTHESIS

CONSUMERS HETEROTROPHS Organisms that receive ENERGY by consuming other organisms. ANIMALS, BACTERIA, & FUNGUS

RESPOND to STIMULI STIMULUS - Something that can evoke a physical response in a cell, tissue, or organism. A stimulus can be internal or external. 

RESPOND to STIMULI RESPONSE - ALL the processes that occur as a result of the stimulus occurring within or outside the cell or organism.

GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT GROW - The increases in cell size and number that take place during the life history of an organism. The process is seldom random.

GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT DEVELOP: Changes in size, shape, and function during the life of an organism by which its genetic code (genotype) is translated into physical characteristics (phenotype)

CONTAINS CHEMICALS/DNA CARBON (C) HYDROGEN (H) NITROGEN (N) PHOSPHORUS (P) MAKE UP: Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nucleic Acids (DNA)

LIVING THINGS ADAPT ADAPTATIONS - Special features that allow a plant/animal to live in a certain place/habitat Result of natural selection & random genetic variations passed from one generation to the next.