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Characterics of Life
Characteristics of Life/Life Functions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| excretion | Removal of cellular wastes in an organism |
| Growth | Life process of an organism increasing in size or cell number |
| Cell | Smallest unit of structure and function in living things that show the CHARACTERISTICS of LIFE |
| Homeostasis | Stable internal environment of an organism |
| Evolution | Gradual changes of a species OVER TIME |
| Multicellular | Any organism having more than one cell |
| Organism | A living thing |
| Unicellular | A single-celled organism |
| Metabolism | The sum of all cell processes in an organism |
| Nutrition | Life process where an organism takes in food for metabolism |
| Regulation | The life function that helps control and coordinate homeostasis in an organism |
| Reproduction | The life process by which organisms generate others of the same kind. Although not needed for homeostasis within an organism, it is required for the continuation of a species |
| Respiration | Life process that uses glucose and oxygen to generate ATP in the mitochondria of cells |
| Synthesis | Life function where smaller substances are joined to make larger ones, to build or make |
| Transport | The life process that moves substances throughout an organism |