LIFE PROCESSES

INTRODUCTION
• Various functions are going to inside our body and
inside the body of all organisms.
• These functions are necessary to maintain the living
beings. the maintenance functions of living organisms
must go on even they are not doing anything particular
even when we are just sitting infront of computer or just
asleep. this maintenance job has to go on .
• The processes which together perform this maintenance
job are life processes.
 DEFINITION

• THE BASIC PROCESSES AND FUNCTION WHICH TOGETHER

KEEP THE LIVING ORGANISM ALIVE AND PERFORM THE
JOB OF MAINTENCE IS CALLED LIFE PROCESSES
MOST IMPORTANT LIFE PROCESSES IN HUMAN
BODY

• NUTRITION
• RESPIRATION
• METABILISM
• MOVEMENT
• GROWTH
• REPRODUCTION
 NUTRITION

• Nutrition is the process of getting energy from outside

sources. Next process of nutrition is to break down these
sources to release energy .
• Process of getting nutrition can vary from organism and is
affected by the external environment
 METABOLISM
• is the sum of all the chemical processes that occur in the
body one phase of metabolism is catabolism the
breakdown of complex chemical substance into simpler
(components ) the other phase of metabolism is anabolism .
The building up of complex chemical substances from
smaller ,simpler components e.g digestive processes
catabolism. Protein in food into amino acids .these amino
acids are then used to anabolize new protein that make up
body structure such as muscles and bones
 RESPIRATION
• breaking down of nutrients to release energy is called
respiration .the way cooking gas is burnt to produce energy for
kitchen the living organism burns food to release energy
• A complex series of oxidation –reduction goes inside the cell to
burn food to carry out different activities inside a living organism
• oxygen is required for oxidation of glucose during cellular
respiration.
• In larger organisms complex system is needed to carry out
transportation of oxygen inside the body .this process is called
external respiration and is different from cellular respiration.
 MOVEMENT
• it includes motion of the whole body. individual organs, single
cells for example the coordinated action of leg muscles moves
your whole body from one place to another after you eat a
meal that contains fats gallbladder contracts and squirts bile
into the gastrointestinal tract to aid in the digestion of fats.
• when the body tissue damaged or infected, certain white
blood cells move from the blood into the affected tissue to
help clean up and repair the area. inside the cell. various
parts move from one position to another to carry out their
functions
 GROWTH
• growth is an increase in body size that results from an increase in the size of
existing cells ,an increase in the number of cells or both .in addition a tissue
sometimes increase in size because the amount of material between cells increases
in a growing bone to grow in length and width
 EXCRETION
• as burning petrol or diesel cause release of obnoxious fumes
out of car, our body also produces such obnoxious substances.
Expulsion of harmful substances which byproducts of life
processes is called excretion .
• In human body many organs help in excreting harmful
substances out of the body .e.g. lungs expel carbon dioxide
skin expels some waste product through sweating. mouth expels
some waste through spit and rectum expel waste through faeces
.
• But the main excretory organ in the human body is kidney.
kidney filters harmful substances from blood and expels them
through urine .
 REPRODUCTION
• refers either to the formation of new cells for tissue
growth. repair or replacement or to the production
of a new individual in human . the former process
occurs continuously throughout life which contains
from one generation to the next through the latter
process, the fertilization of an ovum by a sperm cell.
• when the life processes cease to occur properly the
result is death of cells and tissue whichmay lead to
death.