CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS
Living things, or organisms, have certain characteristics in common which enable us to distinguish between living and non-living things:
- They move
- They grow
- They reproduce
- They are sensitive, i.e., they can sense and respond to changes in their surroundings
- Processes of Nutrition
- They feed
- They respire (breathe) i.e., they release energy from their food, often by combining it with oxygen
- They excrete
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AND they are all made of cells.