What Are The Characteristics Of Living Things?

Question 1

What does the word biology mean?

Answer 1

The study of life

Question 2

Characteristics of life include what?

Answer 2

1. Living things are composed of cells that have a complex, organized structure.
2. Living things actively maintain their complex structure and their internal environment, by homeostasis.
3. They respond to stimuli in their environment.
4. They acquire and use materials and energy from their environment and convert them into different forms.
5. Living things grow.
6. They reproduce themselves.
7. They have the capacity to evolve.

Question 3

What is the cell theory?

Answer 3

The theory that states that the cell is the basic unit of life.

Question 4

All cells contain what?

Answer 4

Genes

Question 5

What are genes?

Answer 5

Units of heredity that provide information required to control the life of the cell.

Question 6

What are organelles specialized to carry out?

Answer 6

Moving the cell, obtaining energy, synthesizing large molecules.

Question 7

What are cells always surrounded by?

Answer 7

A thin plasma membrane

Question 8

What does the thin plasma membrane of a cell enclose?

Answer 8

The cytoplasm

Question 9

How is homeostasis maintained?

Answer 9

Sweating, dousing oneself with cold water, shivering, metabolizing more food, etc.

Question 10

Where do organisms acquire their nutrients?

Answer 10

Air, water, soil, or from other living things. From the environment.