The Characteristics of Living Things and Cells

When you step out into the cold, your body shivers in order to keep its temperature at 98.6F.

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow

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A baby song bird hatches from its egg with both parent songbirds watching.

• All living things reproduce
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things use energy
• All living things grow

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A pill bug (roly poly) eats a carrot.

• All living things contain cells
• All living things use energy
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow

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An amoeba is a unicellular organism. Which characteristic of life is this?

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things respond to their environment
• All living things grow

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A tulip opens in the morning at sunrise and closes in the evening at sunset.

• All living things have cells
• All living things use energy
• All living things respond to their environment
• All living things grow

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Maintaining a stable internal environment.

• Homeostasis
• Metabolism
• Stimulus
• DNA

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A single organism that produces offspring identical to itself.

• DNA
• asexual reproduction
• sexual reproduction
• metabolism

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Cell theory states:

• All living cells must have a cell wall.
•  All living cells require glucose for survival.
• The basic unit of life is a cell.
• All cells contain a nucleus

Bacteria are prokaryotes.

• True
• False

What are the two types of cells?

• Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic

• Bacteria & Eukaryotic

• Eukaryotic

• Animal & Plant

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