1. Unit 6: Living Systems

2. What is Biology? What is Life?

3. Biology Biology is defined as the study of life.
The term biology is composed of two roots:
bio = life
logos = study of

4. Topics in Biology There are many topics which biology covers.
Basic Biochemistry – Chemistry of life
Cells – The building blocks of life
Genetics – How life functions & reproduces
Evolution – Life changing over time
Taxonomy – Classification of living things
Ecology – Interactions of living things
Microbiology – Life too small for the unaided eye to observe

5. Who Studies Biologic Concepts?
The Science Name & What they Study
Botany
Plants
Cytology
Cells
Ecology
Relations between living things and their surroundings
Zoology
Animals

6. All this creates a Question:
What is Life?

7. Characteristics of Life
All life has seven characteristics in common:
Living things are made of cells.
Living things maintain their internal environment.
Living things pass on their traits.
Living things perform chemical activities. This is known as metabolism.
Living things grow and develop.
Living things respond to a stimulus.
Living things reproduce.

8. Todays goals… Complete and Submit:
Unit 6 Study: The Organization and Regulation of Organisms

9. 6.1.1 Study: The Organization and Regulation of Organisms
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Title it: Study: The Organization and Regulation of Organisms
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10. Organism: A living thing

11. Cells All living things are made of one or more cells.
A cell is the smallest unit capable of all life processes
Cell parts:
Nucleus
Cell Membrane
Mitochondria
Chloroplast
Lysosome
Ribosome

12. Homeostasis
All living organisms must maintain a stable internal environment in order to function properly.
The maintenance of a stable internal environment in spite of changes in the external environment is called homeostasis.

13. Metabolism
Living organisms carry out different chemical reactions in order to obtain energy.
The sum of all the chemical reactions carried out in an organism is called metabolism.
Almost all of the energy used by living things originally comes from the sun.

14. Photosynthesis Cellular Respiration
Use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugars
Takes place:
Chloroplasts of plants
Converts sugars and oxygen into carbon dioxide, water and energy the cell can use
Takes place:
Mitochondria

15. Response to Stimuli
Living organisms respond to their external environment.

16. Can you think of a way that you have responded to your environment
today?

17. Reproduction
Most living things can reproduce. Reproduction is the process by which organisms make more of their own kind from one generation to the next.

18. Heredity & Evolution
When an organism reproduces, it passes on its own traits to its offspring in a process called heredity.
Inherited characteristics change over generations. This process is called evolution

19. Growth and Development
All living organisms grow.
As organisms grow, many change. This process is called development.
Development differs from evolution because development refers to change in a single individual during that individual’s life.

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Unit 6 Study: The Organization and Regulation of Organisms
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