Characteristic og Organism

CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS

Phenomena of life that distinguish between living things with non-living things

1. BREATHE
    (RESPIRATION)

•       Inserting O₂ into body and remove CO₂ from the body

•       Based on how to breathe:

            a. Aerobic Organisms: require O₂ to breathe
            b. Anaerobic Organisms: does not require O₂ to breathe

•       Living things breathing organs:
a. Animals: lungs, gills, trachea, air pot, skin
b. Plants: stomata and lenticels

2. EATING
    (Need Food)

•       Insert food into the body to digest and produce energy

•       Based on how to obtain food:

  a. Organisms Autotroph: able to produce their own food

               a. Heterotrophic organisms: not able to produce their own food

•       Another term: Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore, etc.

3. Moving

    There are 2 kinds of movement:

•       Active movement: leaving its place

•       Passive movement: still on its place

    Have you ever seen the plant movement?

4. GROW and DEVELOP

•       Growing up: increasing the volume of the living things body resulting from cell division

•       Developing: the process towards maturity

•       Adults: functioning of reproductive organs and sex cells

           Examples: growth in plants

5. REPRODUCTION

•       The ability of living things to produce descent generation

•       Based on the proliferation ways:
Generative (sexual): copulate, the meeting of two sex cells (male and female)
Vegetative (asexual): not copulate, do not need sex cells

6. EXCRETION

•       Substance rest of the body's metabolism must be removed due to toxic

•       Substance rest of human metabolism:
Carbon dioxide (CO₂)
Sweat
Urine

•       Organs of excretion:

            kidney (Ren),

            Hepar, 

            pulmo (lungs)

            dermis (skin)

 7. Metabolism

     Metabolism is 

     1. the chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism that are necessary for 

         the maintenance of life.

     2. Your metabolism refers to a complex series of chemical processes that convert food into energy 

          as well as establishing the rate at which your body burns calories.