Biology study notes
Characteristics of life – seperates living things from non living.
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Growth- living organisms grow in mass, size and number
Respiration- energy from this is needed to carry out all life processes
Irritability- respond to changes in the environment.
Movement- most living things can move
Excretion- living things create waste during metabolism and needs a way
to remove it.
 Nutrition – all living things need food , a source of energy
 Reproduction- livings this can produce new organism
The major groups of organisms
Prokaryotes
Bacteria
Eukaryotes
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Protoctists
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
(multicellular)
Virus