CHARACTERISTIC OF ORGANISM

CHARACTERISTIC OF ORGANISM

The characteristic of living things are :

            1. Moving

            2. Carrying on respiration

            3. Receiving and Responding to stimulus

            4. Requiring oxygen, water, and food

            5. Growing and Developing

            6. Reproducing

            7. Adaptation to the environment

1. BREATHE
    (RESPIRATION)

     Is 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:

ü  Organisms Autotroph: able to produce their own food

ü  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. IRRITABILITY

     Living things ability to receive and respond to stimulus

     Became the basis for adaptation