1. Characteristics of Life

2. What factors determine if something is living?
Essential Question
What factors determine if something is living?

3. What do all Living Organisms have in Common?
There are 6 characteristics which all living things have in common. List as many as you can think of without any assistance.
All living things:
Have Cells
Use Energy
Sense and Respond to change
Reproduce
Have DNA
Grow and Develop

4. Have Cells
Unicellular = One celled organisms

5. Have Cells
Multicellular = many celled organisms

6. Use Energy
To move, think, grow, live, reproduce, etc.

7. Respond To Stimuli

8. Reproduce
Asexual Reproduction: type of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism. Offspring are identical to parent.
Sexual Reproduction: The production of a new living organism by two parent organisms, with each parent contributing half the DNA of the offspring. Offspring are similar to parents yet unique.

9. Grow and Develop
Growing / Developing: Process of natural development which living organisms undergo by increasing in size and changing physically; progress to maturity.

10. Have DNA
DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid): The “blueprints of life” found in the nucleus of every cell to ensure proper replication.
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