Characteristics of Living Things
This characteristic of life helps organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction (or DNA)?
This biomolecule is responsible for giving us short term energy
What are carbohydrates?
This is needed by organisms for sleeping, thinking, eating, and moving.
What is energy?
This is the function of cellular respiration
Breaking down glucose into ATP
This is the function of photosynthesis
making glucose
When a tadpole becomes a frog, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is Development or growth?
This is the monomer that makes up nucleic acids
What are nucleotides?
This is the process by which one or more organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction?
This is the location that the first stage of cellular respiration occurs
cytoplasm
This is the organelle where photosynthesis takes place
Chloroplast
This characteristic of life is seen when an organism has an involuntary reflex.
What is response to stimuli?
This is the biomolecule that has the most functions, having 10,000 jobs in humans alone
What are proteins?
This is how unicellular organisms reproduce.
What is asexual reproduction?
(Splitting and making a copy of themselves.)
The place where the second stage of cellular respiration occurs- where most of the ATP is produced.
mitochondria- the powerhouse of the cell
These are the three types of organisms that do photosynthesis
Plants, algae, and phytoplankton
This characteristic of life is demonstrated when your brain reports that you are hungry when your blood-sugar gets low.
What is a Homeostasis?
How could you describe the structure of DNA?
What is double helix or twisted ladder?
This describes all of the chemical reactions that occur within a living thing.
What is metabolism?
These organisms use cellular respiration
Every living thing- plants, animals, etc.
This is how photosynthesis and cellular respiration are related
The reactants of one are the products of the other
When a species changes to be better at a task over time, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is adaptation or evolution?
What are the two monomers that make up lipids?
What are fatty acids and glycerol?
This mode of reproduction involves the fusion of gametes
What is sexual reproduction?
The chemical equation for cellular respiration
C6H1206+6H20-->6CO2+6H20+ATP
The chemical equation for photosynthesis
6CO2+6H20-->C6H12O6+6O2