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made of cells, based on a genetic code, grow and develop, obtain and use materials, respond to environment, maintain homeostasis, reproduce, adapt as a species, interdependent |
characteristics of life |
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made of cells |
smallest unit of life, a cell is considered a living thing, organisms can be unicellular or multicellular, characteristic of life. |
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based on a genetic code |
all organisms inherit traits from their parent(s) through DNA |
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Grow and Develop |
Increase in cell number or size, increase in matter, happens to all organisms at some point of their life cycle, changes that lead an organism into adulthood, characteristics of life |
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obtain and use materials and energy |
materials needed for growth, energy needed to assemble, dissassemble, and repair, metabolism, characteristic of life |
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maintain homeostasis |
requires detection and the ability to respond, an organism maintains a stable internal environment, characteristic of life |
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reproduce |
required of some members of species to make more of teh species, sexual, asexual, |
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adapt as a species |
a change over time, evolve as conditions cahnge |
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interdependent |
no organism can survive without another. |
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Hard to define |
there are so many exceptions to all rules implied to life that no one can really create a steadfast definition. Life is- |
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