What is meant by life processes? Tell the basic life processes which are common to all the living organisms.
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What is meant by life processes?
All the living organisms perform some basic functions to keep themselves alive. These basic functions performed by the living organisms to maintain their life on earth are called life processes.
The Basic Life Processes Common To All Are :
Nutrition
Respiration
Transport and Excretion
Control And Coordination
Growth
Movement
Reproduction
For the definitions of the above processes please check out the above attachment.
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Life Process:
It can be simply explained as,
When we sit idle or sleeping, the cells or organ systems are still functioning. In scientific words, the maintenance of living organism must go on when they aren't physically active.
Common Things to all Living organisms:
Nutrition:
Nutrition is the process of obtaining food through consumption of food.
While in plants, it can be taken through photosynthesis or through absorbing nutrients from other host plants or organisms.
Respiration:
The process of acquiring oxygen through breathing and making it a available for the cells for the breakage of organic to simple compounds.
In plants, foods could be synthesized for their growth or movements or reproduction ( flowers)
Excretion:
It is the process by which nitrogenous or metabolic waste can be removed by the different organs of the body.
In plants, yeah it is true that excretion occurs in plants too. How?
Plant wastes are probably stored in the leaf which may fall after the blow of wind (or) they are stored in resins and gums (or) in contractile vacoule.
In animals, Coelenterates through cell membrane (or) protozoa through contractile vacoule.