Characteristics of Living Organisms

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The ability to detect or sense changes in the enviroment (stimuli) and to make responses.
Sensitivity
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The permanent increase in the size and dry mass by an increase in cell number or cell size or both.
Growth
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The action by an organism or part of an organism causing in a change in position or place.
Movement
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Removal from organisms of toxic materials, the waste products of metabolism (chemical reactions in cells) and substances in excess of requirements.
Excretion
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The process that makes more of the same kind of organism.
Reproduction
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Taking in of nutrients, which are organic substances and mineral ions containing raw materials or energy, for growth and tissue repair, absorbing and assimilating them.
Nutrition
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The chemical reaction that breaks down nutrient molecules in living cells to release energy.
Respiration
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The permanent increase in the size and dry mass by an increase in cell number or cell size or both.

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Growth

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The action by an organism or part of an organism causing in a change in position or place.

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Removal from organisms of toxic materials, the waste products of metabolism (chemical reactions in cells) and substances in excess of requirements.

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The process that makes more of the same kind of organism.

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