Characteristics of Living Things
Characteristics Part II
Necessities of Life
More Necessities!
Lipids, ATP, and Nucleic Acids!
100
The maintenance of a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
100
The passing on of traits from the parents to the offspring.
What is heredity?
100
Organisms that can live without air.
What is anaerobic.
100
Large molecules that are made up of smaller molecules called amino acids.
What are proteins?
100
Molecules that carry the directions for how to make proteins.
What are nucleic acids?
200
The body twitching when you are cold.
What is shivering?
200
A single parent produces offspring that is identical to the parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
200
Water, air, shelter, and food.
What are the necessities of life?
200
They join together to form new proteins.
What are amino acids?
200
The major energy carrying molecule of cells.
What is ATP?
300
A change that affects the activity of an organism.
What is a stimulus or stimuli?
300
Two parents produce offspring that share characteristics of both parents.
What is sexual reproduction?
300
Our body is made up of this percentage of water.
What is 70%?
300
They start or speed up chemical reactions in cells.
What are enzymes?
300
Molecules that form much of the cell membrane.
What are phospholipids?
400
The structural and functional unit of life. It is the smallest unit that can carry out the activities of life.
What is a cell?
400
Carries instructions for the organisms traits.
What is DNA?
400
The substance made when two or more atoms join together.
What is a molecule.
400
Molecules made up of sugars.
What are carbohydrates?
400
Smaller molecules that make up nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
500
The sum of all activities that an organism performs.
What is metabolism?
500
Surrounds the cell and separates the contents of the cell from the cell's environment.
What is the cell membrane?
500
Molecules made of different kinds of atoms.
What are compounds?
500
Molecules that cannot mix with water.
What are lipids?
500
Helps protect the cell and maintain homeostasis.
What is the cell membrane?
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