Friday, September 14, 2012

Characteristics of Living Things

What are the 4 main characteristics of living things? Give an example of a living thing and explain your characteristic as best you can! :)

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  1. The four main characteristics of living things are organization, reproduction, growth and response. Growth is when animals get bigger by obtaining nutrients and energy. An example is a when a deer eats plants, the deer gets the nutrients that the plants have which made the deer grow bigger and make the deer healthy. -Mason Guell

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  2. The 4 main characteristics of living things are reproduction, growth, organization, and response.
    An example is bacteria; the bacteria reproduce asexually because they don't use any gametes, which contain chromosomes. The organism gives birth to other bacteria similar to itself.

    Adam

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  3. The four main characteristics of living things are Respond,Reproduction,Organizition and Growth. A germ is an example of a living thing. A germ will RESPOND to the heat. The germ is attracted to the heat and dislikes the cold. Therfore the germ will go towards the heat.

    The average office desk is home to 20,000 germs per square inch. It harbours 400 times more germs than the toilet.Germs transmitted from a sneeze or cough can travel up to 3 feet. When they land on surfaces such as keyboards and telephones, they infect for up to 3 days.

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  4. The four characteristics are Growth,Organization,Reproducted, Respond

    Growth is when your body grow at night or when ever you grow. Like when a plant gets water it looks different in the morning

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  5. The four main characteristics of living things are Reproduce, Respond, Growth, and Organization.
    A rabbit is a example of a living thing.

    A rabbit responds to the weather by growing more fur when it gets colder. If the rabbit couldn't respond to the weather and grow out its fur during the winter the rabbit could freeze to death.

    Did you know rabbits do not hibernate.

    -Mason Dale

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  6. The 4 main characteristics of living things are reproduction, organization, response, and growth. Reproduction is the creation of organisms by using asexual or sexual process. An example of a living thing is bacteria, bacteria reproduces by using asexual reproduction. That means that bacteria does not have to have a mating partner in order to reproduce.

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  7. The four main characteristics of living things are growth, reproduction, response, and organization. Growth is how something or someone grows. For example: an elk, in order to grow it needs to eat food. The elk eats plants that have nutrients in them to help it grow which makes the elk healthy.
    -Holden Reilly

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  8. The four main characteristics of living things are responce, reproduction, growth and organization. Growth is the process of the increase in size of living things. Seahorses actually are horrible swimmers when they are first born but, as they grow older the seahorse will begin the process of learning the skills of how to swim and drift around the ocean. Klairice Schwartz

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  9. The four main characteristics are growth, response, organization, and reproduction. Response is when a living thing responds to the environment. An example of how living things can respond to an environment is a creosote bush. A creosote bush is a bush that lives in the desert. The creosote bush responds to its environment by creating toxins. The creosote bush creates toxins to eliminate the other plants to get more water and vitamins to survive.

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  10. The four main characteristics of life are growth, reproduce, respond, and organization.

    The characteristic response is a very good one. when it’s cold mammals grow more fur and keep more body fat so they are warn and they can go longer without food and if you take a plant and put it upside down the roots will go to the ground.

    Adrien Vesely

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  11. The forming chartists of the ways of life are growth, organization, response and reproduction. These are the 4 ways of life and living. My example of a living thing is a panther. So a panther would have organization they would need to be very good at stuff like. They need to have an organized brain and body!!

    --Cole Rogers-

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  12. The 4 things about life are growth, reproducion, organisation, and response. Growth is a thing we need to be taller if we didnt have growth we would be here the reason Y we have it is to make us taller and let us mature and things like that just like plants take in water to produce there food.

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  13. The for main characteristics are Growth Reproduction, organinzation,Response. Take a cow for example when a cow eats grass for a pasture, the cow's body obsorbs the nutrients respond to the body and makes the cows body healthier.

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  14. The four main characteristics of life are reproduction, organization, growth, and response. Organization how a living thing is organized. An example would be how a living thing will start as a cell, and then it will go to a tissue, then organs such as the stomach or kidney, then an organ system, and finally move to an organism.

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  15. The four main characteristics of life are rosponse, reproduction, growth and organization. Reproduction is the creation of organisms. Organisms can be created by the sexual or asexual process. An example of reproduction is bacteria. Bacteria is created using the asexual process. Asexual means that reproduction is happens with only one organism

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  16. The four main characteristics are growth, organization, response, and reproduction. There are two ways for organisms to reproduct, there are asexual and sexual. Sexual is a male and a female, and asexual is just one. A earthworm is asexual and sexual it can mate with another worm or it can have babies with it's self.

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  17. The characteristics of life are growth, organization, response, and reproduction. All of these things help an organism survive. My example is a germ if you leave your food out when it should of been put in the refridgerator then the germ gets nutrients and they can grow bigger and spread.
    Hailee(:

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  18. The four main characteristics of life are growth, respond,organization, and reproduction. An example of growth is like a tortoise, tortoises start out in an egg, then they hatch as a baby tortoise, then they get larger as they get older. Tortoises get really big from birth, they get as big as a dacshund, and when they hatched they could fit in the palm of your hand.

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  19. The four characterisics of lfie are growth, organization, response, and reproduction. An example of organization is when your body organizes your organs. Molecules turn into cells. Cells turn into tissue. Tissue turns in to your organ system.

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  20. The four main characteristics of life are Growth, Organization, Response, and Reprduction. Organizationis a social entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment. An exact definition of species is a group of interbreeding organisms that do not ordinarily breed with members of other groups.

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  21. The four main characteristics are respond, growth, reproduction, and organization.

    My example is reproduction. Reproduction is done two ways, asexually and sexually. Asexually is when there is only one organism. Sexually is when there is a male and a female. Bacteria reproduces using a cell division called binary fission and reproduces asexually. The reproduction cells in all organisms start with meiosis that create gametes that have one set of chromosomes called haploids. The gametes create zygotes that make up cells.

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  22. The four main characteristics of life are growth, reproduction, response, and organization. Reproduction can be either asexual or sexual. Asexual is when ONE living thing can re create themselves. Sexual is between TWO living things which is a male and a female. Reproduction is the creation of organisms.

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  23. The four characteristics of life are growth, organization, response, and reproduction. Growth is the process of growing. An example of growth is a kitten. From eating the proper amount of food and drinking water, because of the nutrients in the food the kitten is eating slowly the kitten grows into a cat.

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  24. The four characteristics of life are growth, reproduction, organization, and response. An example is an infant because while it age's it grows. And when the infant starts to grow the infant gets more metabolism by eating more nutrients and energy. When the infant grows and starts eating veggies the infant will grow.

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  25. The four main characteristics of life is Organization, Growth, Response, and Reproduction.

    Organization is for example a blood cell travels through the body and the organs and tissue is all there and is organized. Organzation is like tissue, organs, and the parts of yur body.

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  26. The four main characteristics of living things are growth, response, organization, and reproduction. Responding to an environment is key to live a life because plants, animals and humans need to respond to find food for energy. Bears respond to weather by hibernating when it get cold in the winter.

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  27. The four main characteristics of life are response, growth, reproduction, and organization.

    One example for response is first of all your taste buds. The reason this would be a good example is because the second you put something into your mouth, you emeadiatly get a response that either is you like it or you do not. The other one is your nerves. Thisis a great example because your nerves are what help you have a quick response.

    These two examples are good because they are the things that help you have quick response.

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  28. The 4 characteristics of living things are growth, reproduction, organization and response. plants grow from sunlight, water and nutriaunce. we grow from our biological hormone swich cause us to get taller and give us pimples.

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  29. The four characteristics of life are growth, organization, response, and reproduction.

    For example bacteria can multiply through asexual reproduction and can live in many places such as desks, toilets, lakes, and many other places. Make sure to wash your hands because they reproduce so fast they are everywhere and can make you sick.

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  30. The four main characteristics of life are response, growth, reproduction and organization.

    The response characteristic is cool. For example when you feel pain its your body responding. Your body responds to pain because when you get hurt your body is being damaged. So it's our bodys way of telling you to stop what you are doing!

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  31. The four characteristics of life are growth, response, reproduction, and organisation. One example of GROWTH is somethings metabolisim. A good metabolisim changes nutrience that is extracted from food, into energy.
    People can get lots of nutrience from good foods like vegtables and fruits.

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  32. The 7 characteristics of life are growth, respond, reproduction, and organization. My example of organization is the human body. Molecules make up cell organelles, cell organelles make cells, cells make tissue, tissue makes organs, organs make organ systems, and organ systems make organisms.

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  33. The four characteristics of life are growth, organization, response and reproduction. Growth happens from organisms getting larger, this happens as cells increase.

    When dolphins find food to help them grow, one of the techniques they use is called "kerplunking" this is when they smack their tail on to the water to scare the fish which creates bubbles underwater than a group of dolphins swim in a circle to trap the fish. This is how they trap their prey.

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  34. The 4 main characteristics of living things are growth, organization, reproduction and response. Growth of a living thing is when an organism takes in nutrients and energy which makes the organism get bigger and grow over time. For example; a kangaroo needs nutrients from food to get energy which makes the kangaroo bigger and healthier. -Katie Benedict

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  35. What are the 4 main characteristics of living things? Give an example of a living thing and explain your characteristic as best you can! :)


    Life. Gotta love it. In fact, you really don't have a choice. Why? Why don't you have a choice? Because, we are alive, and that is what makes this planet different from Mars. That's just a bunch of sand, while we have sand, with organic material (e.g, dirt) and some other stuff. If there was no life, desertification would destroy the world where applicable, if a meteor, volcano, solar flare, or any other catastrophic event didn't happen. Anyway, to the point: life has 4 main characteristics, and they are (drumroll please) growth, reproduction, response, and organization, for another 50 points! Now, I am going to make a analogy here: I will compare life to a engine. Not that life actually is a engine, it's just the most life-like thing second to none. Well, a engine is mighty organized: it's complicated to the extreme. (Some auto junkies will argue otherwise, but 99.98% of the world can't put a engine together, perfectly, with only the parts and no instruction guide. Some Bugatti people can, as they hand-make the engines. That's beside the point though.) Okay, so a engine is organized. What about growth? Nope, engines can't do that. Reproduction? If it is a robot engine using a robot, then I guess you could kind (note the kind) of call it reproduction, but not really. Response, no. Engines have none of those at all, my point being that even the simplest micro-organism possesses all 4. How incredible. On that note, let's go the the common amoeba. Say, E. Coli. We all have E. Coli, it helps run our intestines. Well, let's go to growth! They grow. Story over. Reproduction, say. How can a lowly amoeba do that? They split. The process is complicated, but it goes like this. Small amoeba eats. Gets big, and then splits. Repeat 10 e+x times. Incredible! Response, which in this case necessitates a experiment! Not that you'll be able to see it, but what is happening on this small experiment is a battle. A battle of two colonies, competing for land in your upper intestine. Oh! Look at that! We have a winner! It is E. Coli!. Anyway, in the category of organization for the Super Jeopardy Question, we have: What is organization in a amoeba? A amoeba has different parts to the cell, and they are organized very nicely inside of it for maximum effect. Congratulations! You have won Twenty Thousand Dollars! (Trumpet guy plays end music)

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  36. The four main characteristics are response, reproduction , organization , growth.
    I have response for example a cats whiskers help know how close they are to something and they know if they’re body can fit through the object they are going through. Another example if you body didn’t respond to pain you could be shot and you didn’t know that you got shot you could die without even knowing.
    A cat can sense food from at least 8 ft away, cats can make at least 100 different sounds, approximately 24 cat skins make a coat. A cat can run 31 mph
    sylvia peters

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  37. The four main characteristics of living things are growth, organization, respond, and reproduction. I like to hang out with mushrooms because mushrooms are fungis. Not oly are they fungis there living things that need those four characteristics. How do mushrooms use organization you may ask. Mushrooms are made of multiple cells and do basic things. Basic things all living things do seem simple to us. The basic thing can take in materials, release energy from food, release wastes, grow, respond to the environment, and reproduce. Some of these are seen above. But mushrooms have tissues, which are similar cells doing one job. Even though peolple can't feel it all the time we have microscopic organism in us doing difficult things to sustain are body. Even if that means killing other cells, which are bad for you, to finish the job and those tissues make organs to do an even bigger job. Eventually you get an organism.

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