Characteristics of Living Things

What is Biology the study of?

• How we digest food

• The study of living things

• Organisms made of only one cell

What is a cell?

• Microscopic units of life

• When a new life is created through a cell cloning itself

• Organisms made of more than one cell

What is heredity?

• Microscopic units of life

• All living things

• The passing on of physical or mental characteristics from one generation to another

What is homeostasis?

• The ability of all living things to keep a stable environment

• When a new life is created through a cell cloning itself

• Organisms made of more than one cell

What is a unicellular organism?

• The digestion of materials needed for survival

• Microscopic units of life

• Organisms made of more than one cell

What is a multicellular organism?

• Microscopic units of life

• Organisms made of more than one cell

What is a stimulus?

• A detectable change in the environment surrounding an organism

• The ability of all living things to keep a stable internal environment

• Organisms made of more than one cell