Life Functions Flashcards
1
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The 8 Life Functions
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- nutrition
- transport
- respiration
- growth
- synthesis and assimilation
- regulation
- excretion
- reproduction
2
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Nutrition
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-ingestion
-digestion
-egestion
3
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Autotrophs
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They make their ATP automatically with photosynthesis (plants)
4
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Heterotrophs
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They have to eat things to make ATP
5
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Transport
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Moving digestive products around the body
6
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Respiration
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Releasing chemical energy to power up our life functions (ATP)
7
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Aerobic Respiration
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Needs oxygen
8
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Anaerobic Respiration
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Don’t need oxygen
9
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Growth
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Growth in cell size/number
10
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Synthesis
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Making things
11
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Assimilation
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Incorporating a bunch of different things together
12
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Regulation
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The nervous system controls all the other life functions
13
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Excretion
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Waste leaving your body from chemical reactions (pee, sweat)
14
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Reproduction
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Having children to carry on the species
15
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Homeostasis
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Regulating the body and keeping it constant
