Learning Activities
All living things share several key characteristics or functions: order,
sensitivity, or response to the environment/stimuli, reproduction, growth
and development, homeostasis, highly organized cellular structures,
and their ability to adapt to the changing environment.
Activity 1:
Identify what is asked on the space provided before the number. Use your
dictionary for assistance
1. The ability of an organism to increase in size.
2. The ability of an organism to produce an offspring.
3. The ability of an organism to digest food and turn to energy
4. Are basic unit of life or the building blocks of the body
5. Are molecules that carry genetic instructions
Life is a characteristics that distinguishes physical entities and biological
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1.An increase in the physical size of an organism is called growth
2. Reproduction (or procreation) is the biological process by which new “offspring” (individual organisms) are produced from their “parents. ” It is a fundamental feature of all known life that each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction.
3.In order to sustain themselves, all organisms must obtain nutrients from the environment. Some nutrients serve as raw materials for the synthesis of cellular material; others (e.g., many vitamins) act as regulators of chemical reactions; and still others, upon oxidation, yield energy. Not all nutrients, however, are in a form suitable for immediate use by an organism; some must undergo physical and chemical changes before they can serve as energy or cell substance.
4.A cell is the smallest unit of a living thing. A living thing, whether made of one cell (like bacteria) or many cells (like a human), is called an organism. Thus, cells are the basic building blocks of all organisms.
5.life