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SMAN 10 MALANG SAMPOERNA ACADEMY
BIOLOGY TERMS
Characteristics of Living Things
How Scientists Classify Living Things
1. Cell
Smallest functional unit of living things.
2. Nutrition
As taking in which are organic substances and mineral ions, containing raw materials
or energy for growth and tissue repair, absorbing and assimilating them.
3. Sensitivity
The ability to detect or sense changes in the environment and to make responses.
4. Excretion
As removal from organism of toxic materials, the waste products of metabolism
(chemical reactions) in cells including respirations and substances in excess of
requirements.
5. Respirations
As the chemical reactions that break down nutrient molecules in living cells to
release energy.
6. Reproduction
As the process that make more of the same kind of organism.
7. Growth
As a permanent increase in size and dry mass by an increase in cell number or cell
size or both.
8. Movement
As an action by an organism or part of an organism causing a change of position of
place.
9. Energy
Animals and humans eat food to obtain their energy.
Plants however use the sunlight obtain their energy.
10. Homeostasis
Maintaining the inside of their bodies.
Eating the right foods and staying clean are parts of this maintaining process.
11. How scientists do classify?
Classify the living things by find the same characteristics into groups, then make a
bigger group which has more living things that have same characteristics.
12. 7 Classification of living things
Kingdom -> Phylum/ Division -> Class -> Order -> Family -> Genus -> Species
13. Binomial system / Binomial Nomenclature
A species is identified by both its genus name and spesific name.
14. Dichotomous key
A method for determining the identify of living things by going through a series of
choices that leads the correct name.
15. Example of living organism and non-living organism
Living organism : Plants, animals, humans.
Non-living organism : Building, stone, soil.