THE CHARACTERISTIC OF LIVING THINGS

LIVING THINGS
All animals and plants are living things and BIOLOGY is the study of these living things. LIVING THINGS have seven characteristics.

The Seven Characteristics of Living Things

1. Feeding All living organisms need to take substances from their environment to obtain energy, to grow and to stay healthy. Some animals predate other animals (predator) or eat the same type animal (cannibal) Based on its food source, animal are group into four, namely herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and detritivores.

 Some organisms gain their food by living on or taking it from other organism, they called PARASITE. There are also organism such as fungi and bacteria that decompose organisms, they called DECOMPOSERS.

2. Movement All living organisms show movement of one kind or another. Movement in an animals and human is active, and in a plant is pasive.

3. Breathing or Respiration All living things exchange gases with their environment. Animals take in oxygen (O2and breathe out carbon dioxide (CO2). Two kinds of breathing process. Anaerobic and aerobic respirations. Anaerobic respiration is cellular respiration, for example fermentation by yeast to make fermented Casava. Aerobic respiration is cellular respiration that requires oxygen. Organism with an aerobic respiration has respiratory organ.

Respiration

Movement

4. Excretion Excretion is the removal of waste from the body. If this waste was allowed to remain in the body it could be poisonous. Excreting organs of human and animals include: kidney, liver, skin and gills. Excreting organ of plants include stomata on the leaves and lenticels in the tree trunks.

5. Growth When living things feed they gain energy. Some of this energy is used in growth. Living things become larger and more complicated as they grow.

6. Sensitivity Living things react to changes around them. We react to touch, light, heat, cold and sound, as do other living things.

7. Reproduction All living things produce young. Humans make babies, cats produce kittens and pigeons lay eggs. Plants also reproduce. Many make seeds which can germinate and grow into new plants. Organisms can reproduce either sexually or asexually, but some can reproduce in both ways. the mating phenomenon is also known as fertilization. In this phenomenon male and female gametes meet. in plants the result of its sexual reproduction is seeds, in animals it is eggs or fetus.

Non-living things
Sand, wood and glass are all non-living things. None of them shows any of the characteristics listed above. Non-living things can be divided into two groups. First, come those which were never part of a living thing, such as stone and gold. The second group are those which were once part of living things. Paper is non-living but it is also made from trees. Jam is also non-living but it was made from the fruit of a plant.

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