7A Cells

7A Cells
Signs of life

Building blocks of life

Building living things

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7A Cells

Signs of life

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7A Signs of life - Life on Mars?

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7A Signs of life - Life on Mars?

Serious efforts to discover life on other planets have been going on for many years.

If extra-terrestrial beings really were discovered how would scientists decide if they were alive?

A simple way of sorting everything on our planet is to divide it into 2 groups living things and non-living things. But can you tell the difference?

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7A Signs of life - Staying alive

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7A Signs of life The meaning of life

There are seven essential life processes. To remember these processes meet our little blue woman MS. R. NERG

What do all the letters in her name stand for?

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7A Signs of life - The meaning of life

M = MOVEMENT
Living things are able to move about. Animals move from place to place. Plants move by responding to light.

S = SENSITIVITY Living things notice and react to changes in their surroundings. They can respond to light, heat, sound, taste, sight or touch.

R = RESPIRATION Living things need energy to carry out the functions that keep them alive. Respiration is the process by which food is turned into energy.

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7A Signs of life - The meaning of life

N = NUTRITION Living things need to take in food so that respiration can occur. Nutrients in food help to build, maintain and repair the organism.
E = EXCRETION Living things have to get rid of unwanted waste products. R = REPRODUCTION Living things produce offspring. Reproduction continues the survival of each species. G = GROWTH Living things grow, increasing in size and complexity.
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7A Signs of life - The meaning of life

All living things carry out the seven essential life processes. M = Movement

S = Sensitivity
R = Respiration N = Nutrition E = Excretion R = Reproduction

G = Growth
But what are living things made of?
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7A Cells

Building blocks of life

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7A Building blocks of life - Cell fact file

Living things are made up of tiny building blocks called cells. Each cell breathes, takes in food, gets rid of wastes, grows, reproduces and dies.

A living thing can be just one cell or millions of cells. Big living things dont have bigger cells they just have more cells.

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7A Building blocks of life - Cell fact file

Amazingly, the human body has more than 10,000,000,000,000 (thats 10 million million) cells!

Think about the size of your little toe. It has about 2 or 3 thousand million cells!

Thats a lot of cells to make one toe, so cells must be very, very, very small. How do we know about cells if they are so small?
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7A Building blocks of life - Cell-ebrate the Microscope

Cells could not have been discovered without the invention of the microscope.

micro- means small, -scope means looking at.

A microscope allows us to look at very small things by making them seem bigger. It magnifies tiny details and makes them visible to the human eye.

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7A Building blocks of life - Cell-ebrate the Microscope

Cell-ebrate the microscope!

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7A Building blocks of life - Cell-ebrate the microscope

Every living thing from an elephant to an ant, from a tree to a daisy, from your left toe to right earlobe is made of cells. Microscopes allow us to magnify cells revealing their shape and structure.

This is a typical animal cell.

Do animal and plant cells look the same?

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7A Building blocks of life - Typical animal cell

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7A Building blocks of life - Typical plant cell

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7A Building blocks of life - Typical cells

Compare a typical animal cell and a typical plant cell.

Which parts of a plant cell are the same as an animal cell?

Which parts of a plant cell are not found in an animal cell?
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7A Cells

Building living things

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7A Building living things - Cells working together

What could you do if you were one cell? Not much! Youd be a blob, with lots of pieces floating around inside of you! Keeping you alive is a big job. So your body is made of millions of cells that have to be very organised. Your body has organs that each carry out specific jobs to keep you alive. How many organs can you name?

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7A Building living things - Cells, tissues and organs

eye

brain ear tongue

skin stomach

heart lung

intestines

muscle
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7A Building living things - Cells, tissues and organs

Similar Cells are cells the that building do the blocks same ofjob all work livingtogether organisms. to make tissue. muscle cell stomach Different cells do different jobs. muscle tissue

How do the millions of cells in your body work together? Muscle cells make muscle tissue.
What type of cells are nerve tissue and blood tissue made from?

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7A Building living things - Different cells for different jobs

Name a cell that would be suitable for each job.

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7A Building living things - How are new cells made?

All living things (including you and your teacher) started as one tiny cell!

So where do all the cells come from?

Living things grow and repair themselves by an amazing process called cell division.

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7A Building living things - How are new cells made?

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