The Characteristics of The Living Things

Sign of life in animals and plants

The Mexican axolotls has Centella is reproduced by runner

The shrimp has a skeleton gills outside of its body.
outside the body, so it shed the or stolon.
old skeleton and stretch a soft
new skeleton as it grows.
Signs of Life
• Movement
• Respiration
• Sensitivity
• Growth
• Reproduction
• Excretion
• Nutrient
Movement
- Muscles provide movement for all animals
- Plants can not change place, but they can move
Respiration
- the process in which energy is released from food
- the energy is used for life processes such as growth and movement
- takes places in the bodies of both animals and plants as a chemical reaction:

Respiration is not breathing,

breathing is the process of moving
air in and out of the body.
Sensitivity or Irritability
- Animals detect or sense things in their surroundings by their sense organs (antennae, skin,
eyes, ears, nose, tongue)
Growth and Reproduction
- Food  energy  grow and repair the damage part of the body
- Grow is the process of increasing in size and changing physically, progress to maturity
- Reproduction is the process that keeps a plant or animal species in existence
Excretion
- the process of eliminating or expelling waste matter
Nutrient: eating and feeding
• All living things need food, plants make their own food but animals must get it
from other living things.
• Some animals eat a wide range of food, while others eat only a small range of
food.
• For example, lice, leeches and mosquitoes feed on blood.
Differences of animals and plants
Animals
• Can’t produce their own food, have
to rely on others to feed their
selves (heterotroph)
• Have mouth and digestive system
• Don’t have chlorophyll
• Move and moving place
• Have nervous and muscle system
• Have senses
Plants
• Produce their own food during
photosynthesis (autotroph)
• Don’t have digestive system
• Have chlorophyll
• Can move but can’t change places
• Don’t have nervous and muscle
system
• Don’t have senses