It's Alive!! Or Is It? - Characteristics of Living Things
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| How many characteristics do all living things share? | 6
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| What is one characteristic that all living things share? | they have cells
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| How many cells do all living things have? | 1 or more
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| What has all the materials necessary for life? | a cell
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| What keeps a cell's contents away from its environment? | a membrane
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| What are all living things able to do? | they can sense and respond to change
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| What is a stimulus? | a change that affects a living thing's activity
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| What must all living thing maintain? | a stable internal condition
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| What is homeostasis? | the maintenance of a stable internal condition
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| What is one characteristic that all living things share? | they are able to reproduce
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| How do two parents produce offspring? | through sexual reproduction
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| How does a single parent produce offspring? | through asexual reproduction
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| What do the cells of all living things contain? | DNA
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| When living things reproduce, who do they pass copies of their DNA to? | their offspring
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| What is heredity? | the passing of traits from parents to offspring
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| What does DNA control? | the structure and function of cells
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| What is the total of all chemical activities a living thing performs called? | metabolism
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| What do all living things do during their lives? | they grow and develop
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| What happens to a single-celled living thing as it grows? | it gets larger and divides
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| What happens to a living thing with many cells as it grows? | it gains cells and gets bigger
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| What is a cell? | the smallest unit that can perform all life processes
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| What is sexual reproduction? | reproduction in which the sex cells from two parents unite, producing offspring that share traits from both parents
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| What is asexual reproduction? | reproduction that does not involve the union of sex cells and in which one parent produces offspring identical to itself
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