Life Functions Flashcards

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The 8 Life Functions

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  1. nutrition
  2. transport
  3. respiration
  4. growth
  5. synthesis and assimilation
  6. regulation
  7. excretion
  8. reproduction
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Nutrition

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-ingestion
-digestion
-egestion

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Autotrophs

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They make their ATP automatically with photosynthesis (plants)

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Heterotrophs

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They have to eat things to make ATP

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Transport

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Moving digestive products around the body

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Respiration

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Releasing chemical energy to power up our life functions (ATP)

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Aerobic Respiration

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Needs oxygen

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Anaerobic Respiration

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Don’t need oxygen

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Growth

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Growth in cell size/number

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Synthesis

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Making things

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Assimilation

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Incorporating a bunch of different things together

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Regulation

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The nervous system controls all the other life functions

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Excretion

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Waste leaving your body from chemical reactions (pee, sweat)

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Reproduction

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Having children to carry on the species

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Homeostasis

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Regulating the body and keeping it constant

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Metabolism

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The 8 life functions