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Chapter 2: The Characteristics of Life Flashcards

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Extinct or endangered animals

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Honeybees
Polar bears
White tiger
Dodo birds

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Life

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An organ-based object that possesses the characteristics of metabolism and continuity of life

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Metabolism

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The sum of all chemical reaction that occurs in an organism

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Continuity of life

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How cells arise from cells of the same type and organisms arise from organisms of the same type

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Biological Organisation

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The different levels of complexity in an organism

Cells -> tissues -> organs -> system -> organisms -> population

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Nutrition

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The way in which living organisms obtain and use food

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Autotrophic

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When an organism makes its own food

Plants

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Heterotrophic

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Where an organism goes and gets its own food

Animal

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Characteristics of living things

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Biological organisation
Response
Excretion
Nutrition
Reproduction
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Excretion

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When an organism get rid of the waste products of metabolism

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Response

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The way living organisms react to their environment

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Reproduction

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The way in which offspring are produced from their parents

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Animals excrete

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Sweat by the skin
Urine by the kidney
Carbon dioxide by the lungs

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Plants excrete through

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Stomata and lenticels

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Sexual production

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More advanced
Shows variation
Amongst members of the same species
Two parents
Humans
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Asexual production

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More primitive
Produces identical copies of the organisms
No variation
One parent
Bacteria
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Single celled organisms get rid of waste through

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Diffusion

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Diversity

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The large variety of living organisms present on the Earth

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Diffusion

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The movement of molecules from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration

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