Question

Describe the important characteristics features of living organises

Answer 1

Answer: All living organisms share several key characteristics or functions: order, sensitivity or response to the environment, reproduction, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, and energy processing.

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Answer 2

Answer :

The Important Characteristics Features of living Organisms are as follows:

1) Movement :

All living things move, even organisms like plants ‘move’ with patterns such as phototropism and geotropism using plant growth substances such as indole acetic acid.

2) Respiration :

All living things respire, humans convert oxygen to glucose to resynthesise our ATP stores. Plants convert glucose to oxygen in the opposite to respiration, they do however respire at night.

3) Sensitivity :

Humans, plants and all living things are sensitive to changes to the environment, humans for example have proprioceptors that detect movement changes. Plants have photoreceptors that detect light changes.

4) Growth :

This one is seemingly obvious, all living things grow, be it humans, dogs, fungi, archaea etc.

5) Reproduction :

For something to live and continue to live, it must reproduce. This can be sexual, such as humans, or asexual, such as bacteria which produces a clone of itself. Plants use sexual reproduction too, using pollen from male plants and egg chambers etc in female plants.

6) Excretion :

All living organisms must get rid of their waste, faeces for humans and other animals. For plants it is actually the oxygen produced during the photolysis of water

7) Nutrition :

Humans and other animals need food to be alive, they need to absorb the minerals, vitamins, amino acids etc in the food in order to grow. Plants need carbon dioxide in order to produce sucrose and other sugars

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