Characteristics of Life

Question 1

What is an organism?

Answer 1

Is a living thing

Question 2

What is metabolism?

Answer 2

Is the sum of all chemical reactions in an organism.

Question 3

What does continuity of life mean?

Answer 3

Means that living things arise from other living things of the same type.

Question 4

What is nutrition?

Answer 4

Is the way organisms obtain and use food.

Question 5

What is excretion?

Answer 5

Is the removal of waste products of metabolism from the body.

Question 6

What is a response?

Answer 6

Is the way which all living things react to changes in their environment.