1. What is Life?
Every part of the biosphere is connected with every other part.
The biosphere includes many environments.
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2. What is Life?
The term biodiversity refers to the variety of life in an area.
Biodiversity greatly increases as you move from the poles.
Biodiversity is greater in warmer temperatures.
Biodiversity
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3. What is Life?
A species is one particular type of living thing, an organism.
Members of a species can interbreed to reproduce.
There are about 2 million different living species that have been identified.
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4. What is Life? Some species are rather unusual….
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5. Characteristics of Life
All living things share certain characteristics of life whether they are simple and small…
or LARGE AND COMPLEX
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6. Characteristics of Life
All Living Things….
Amoeba
Bacterium
Paramecium
#1 : All living things are composed of one or more cells.
Leaf Cells
Onion Cells
Skin Cells
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