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Unity in Diversity: All forms of life have common features A. All life shares common properties, which distinguishes living (biotic) from non-living (abiotic). 1. ORDER -all organisms are made of one or more cells, which are highly ordered. a.ALL cells share similar molecules (ex. DNA)
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b. ALL organisms code genetic information the same way using DNA c. information stored in DNA is used to build the organism
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2. Regulation - The environment outside an organism may change, but the internal environment of the organism is maintained. a. Homeostasis - The maintenance of our internal environment
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3. Growth and Development
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4. Energy Utilization -Organisms must take in energy and transform it to perform life ’ s activities via chemical reactions. a. Metabolism - combination of all the chemical reactions in an organism
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5. Response to the Environment
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6. Reproduction
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7. Evolution -capacity of a species to change over time. It ’ s the central unifying feature of life from its inception almost 4 billion years ago.
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