The "Characteristics of Life"....are used to describe what all living things must carry out in order to survive in their environment. These characteristics, or traits, are crucial for and organism's survival. Here, we will gain some important background knowledge about the 10 COL's that will prepare us for our trip into the human body.
Characteristics of Life (COL's)
The COL's are things all living organisms need. They all play a special, important role in living things. There are 11 main COL's. These COL's can be put in a acronym: MR. LC STRNGER.
Metabolism: The total set of life processes and chemical reactions that allow an organism to take care of itself.
Regulation: How living things respond to changes in their internal/external environment.
Locomotion: The movement of living things towards food, water, shelter and mates.
Cells: All livings things have cells.
Synthesis: Living things build big things from smaller things.
Transport: The movement of stuff within a organism (Like blood moving through your veins and arteries).
Respiration: Living things burning food for fuel.
Nutrition: Living things obtaining energy from their environment.
Growth: Bigger cells, more cells. (A human being starts with one cell, and grows and developes into an organism with over 6 trillion cells!)
Excretion: Living things getting rid of waste. (There are four ways: urination, defecation, sweating and exhaling)
Reproduction: All living things come from other living things, livng things making "pretty good" copies of themselves (There are two types of reproduction: Asexual, which is with one parent, and sexual, which is with two parents).
Metabolism: The total set of life processes and chemical reactions that allow an organism to take care of itself.
Regulation: How living things respond to changes in their internal/external environment.
Locomotion: The movement of living things towards food, water, shelter and mates.
Cells: All livings things have cells.
Synthesis: Living things build big things from smaller things.
Transport: The movement of stuff within a organism (Like blood moving through your veins and arteries).
Respiration: Living things burning food for fuel.
Nutrition: Living things obtaining energy from their environment.
Growth: Bigger cells, more cells. (A human being starts with one cell, and grows and developes into an organism with over 6 trillion cells!)
Excretion: Living things getting rid of waste. (There are four ways: urination, defecation, sweating and exhaling)
Reproduction: All living things come from other living things, livng things making "pretty good" copies of themselves (There are two types of reproduction: Asexual, which is with one parent, and sexual, which is with two parents).
