LIFE PROCESSES Flashcards
Life processes
Life processes are series of actions, such as movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition that are essential for life processes to sustain.
nutrition
A process to transfer a source of energy from outside the body of Organism which we call food to inside a process we commonly call nutrition.
Molecular movement
Movements over very small scales will be invisible to the naked eye. The movements of various molecules from one place to another inside the cell at in between cells are known as molecular movement.
Respiration
The process of acquiring oxygen from outside the body and to use it in the process of breakdown of food sources who cellular needs, is what we call respiration.
Digestion
The process of converting complex substances into simple absorbable form
Excretion
The process by which organisms rid themselves off the these products and of the nitrogenous byproducts of metabolism.
Enzymes
Soluble protein molecules which speed up the chemical reactions and breakdown the complex substances into simpler substances before it can be used for growth. For this organisms use of biocatalysts called enzymes.
Autotrophs
Some organisms use simple food material from inorganic food sources in the form of carbon dioxide and water. These animals are called autotrophs and include plants and bacteria.
Heterotrophs
Organisms which depend on other organisms for food.
Stomata
They are pores so on the surface of the leaf which is responsible for the exchange of gases and the loss of water through transpiration in plants.
Guard cell
They are the cells that surround the stomata and control the opening and closing of it.
Mineras that are taken up from the soil buy plants
nitrogen, iron, phosphorus and magnesium
Types of heterotrophic nutrition
- holozoic nutrition which is the mode of nutrition in which your organisms take in food and break it down inside the body
- Side providing nutrition are the organisms which breakdown the food outside the body then absorb it.
- Parasitic nutrition are some organisms in which nutrition is derived from plants or animals without killing them.
The differences in the mode of heterotrophic nutrition in fungi, parasites and mammals can be attributed to:-
Difference in body design, availability of food, type of food
why are plants called autotrophs
Plants are called autotrophs because they derive their energy directly from the sun and produce food for themselves.