1.3 Six Characteristics of Life

Question 1

Name the 6 Characteristics of Life

Answer 1

1. Growth
2. Responsiveness
3. Reproduction
4. Organization
5. Metabolism
6. Development

Question 2

Specific interrelationships among the individual parts of an organism, and how those parts interact to perform specific functions.

Answer 2

Organization

Question 3

Ability to use energy to perform other vital functions, such as growth, movement, and reproduction. Human cells posses specialized proteins that can break down food molecules to use as a source of energy.

Answer 3

Metabolism

Question 4

Organism’s ability to sense changes in the external or internal environment and adjust to it.

Answer 4

Responsiveness

Question 5

Example of Responsiveness

Answer 5

Moving away from danger/ Moving toward food, and rising of body temperature causing sweat.

Question 6

Increase in the size or number of cells, which produces an overall enlargement in all or part of an organism, cells size, or the amount of substance surrounding cells

Answer 6

Growth

Question 7

Example of Growth

Answer 7

Bone Growth because of increase in bone cells.

Question 8

Includes changes the changes an organism undergoes through time, beginning with fertilization and ending in death.

Answer 8

Development

Question 9

What does development involve?

Answer 9

Growth and Differentiation

Question 10

involves changes in a cell’s structure and function from an immature, generalized state to a mature, specialized state.

Answer 10

Differentiation

Question 11

Formation of new cells or new organisms.

Answer 11

Reproduction

Question 12

What does reproduction allow for?

Answer 12

Reproduction of cells allows for growth and development. It also prevents extinctions of species.