Chars of Living Things
This characteristic of life helps organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction (or DNA)?
This is described as making more or bigger cells
What is growth?
This is needed by organisms for sleeping, thinking, eating, and moving.
What is energy?
What is another name for Homeostasis?
Balance / Maintain Internal Condition
A _____ is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
When a tadpole becomes a frog, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is Development?
These "little organs" of a cell perform different functions
This is the process by which one or more organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction?
What is a stimulus?
All organisms are made of _______.
What is Cells?
This characteristic of life is seen when an organism has an involuntary reflex.
What is response to stimuli?
If an organism is made of many cells, it is this.
What is multicellular?
This is how unicellular organisms reproduce.
What is asexual reproduction?
(Splitting and making a copy of themselves.)
Your body regulates its temperature by doing this.
What is shivering, sweating, or changing blood flow?
This class of organisms produce their own food.
What is Autotroph?
This characteristic of life is demonstrated when your brain reports that you are hungry when your blood-sugar gets low.
What is a Homeostasis?
Growth in multicellular organisms is mostly due to an increase in the _______ of cells.
What is number?
This describes all of the chemical reactions that occur within a living thing.
What is metabolism?
When Homeostasis is not maintained, this can happen to the organism.
What is gets sick or dies?
This part of Cell Theory states that maggots will not spontaneously generate on cooked meat in a closed jar.
What is "All living cells are produced by other living cells"?
When a species changes to be better at a task over time, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is adaptation or evolution?
When a unicellular organism grows, rather than increasing the number of cells, the organism simply does this
What is its cell increases in size?
(Almost) All energy on earth comes from this.
What is the Sun?
Many animals migrate as a response to this stimulus.
What is a change in seasons?
This type of organism gains energy by consuming other organisms or their byproducts.
What is Heterotroph?