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Living Things
Living, Non-Living, or Dead
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Classifying | To put things into groups or categories based on shared characteristics |
| Living | An organisms that shows/has all 6 characteristics |
| Nonliving | Something that was never alive or used to be alive, but has died and been processed or changed into something else. |
| Dead | Something that used to be alive but is no longer alive |
| Organism | A living thing that has the ability to survive on its own (meets all 6 characteristics) |
| Characteristics | Features that help identify or distinguish a person or thing |
| Cell | A small, basic unit of all living things and all organisms have at least one (many have millions) |
| Sense and Respond | Organisms respond to stimulus |
| Reproduce | Organisms make offspring, or individuals of the same kind |
| DNA | Organisms have deoxyribonucleic acid (genetic material) |
| Energy | Organisms use this to carry out the activities of life (every cell needs it to function) |
| Grow and develop | Organisms increase in size and change over the course of its life (cells differentiate) |