The Living World

 

 What is Living?
Characteristics of living organisms:
• Growth
• Reproduction, Self-replication and self-organization
• Res...

Characteristics of life
• According to one definition, living organisms are open systems that
maintain homeostasis, are co...

GROWTH
• Increase in mass and /or number of individuals or cells.
• Increase in mass and number are twin characteristics i...

• Growth in unicellular organisms:
- Also by Cell Division
- Cell Division is also a method of reproduction in them, thus,...

• Difference of growth in non-living objects and living organisms:
- In both increase in mass occurs.
- In non-living obje...

REPRODUCTION
• It is the ability to produce new individual organisms of same kind.
• Non-living things do not have the pro...

- In yeast and hydra, budding is a method of reproduction.

- In Planaria (flatworm), fragmentation is a method of asexual
reproduction. This is referred as regeneration.

- The fungi, filamentous algae, the protonema of mosses, all
easily multiply by fragmentation.

- In bacteria and amoeba, binary fission is a method of
reproduction.
- In Euglena and Paramecium also asexual reproductio...

- Sexual reproduction is commonly observed in higher plants and
animals.
- It involves formation of gametes by two parents...

METABOLISM
• All living organisms are made of big or small chemicals of various types,
which exhibit different functions.
...

CELLULAR ORGANIZATION
• All living organisms are made of CELLS.
• A cell is the smallest basic unit of life,
which can per...

CONSCIOUSNESS
• It is the ability to sense their surroundings or environment and respond to
these environmental stimuli (p...

THUS
- Living organisms are self-replicating, evolving and self-regulating
interactive systems capable of responding to ex...

DIVERSITY IN THE LIVING WORLD
• Biodiversity refers to the number and variety of organisms (plants,
animals, fungi, protis...


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