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9/12/2012 Do Now

9/12/2012 Do Now. Complete the hand out, you are dealing with a real REGENTS question. 9/12/2012. 1. Identify the following as living or non- living. 2. What makes them living?. LG: What Makes Living Things Living ? LG: How are Living Things Classified?.

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9/12/2012 Do Now

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  1. 9/12/2012Do Now Complete the hand out, you are dealing with a real REGENTS question.

  2. 9/12/2012 1. Identify the following as living or non- living. 2. What makes them living?

  3. LG: What Makes Living Things Living?LG: How are Living Things Classified?

  4. LG: What Makes Living Things Living? What is biology? • Biology is the study of living things. • Bio-: something living • -logy: the study of

  5. Terminology • Living=Biotic • Non-living=Abiotic

  6. Group Work! • Each group will receive a packet to read and analyze • After reading, each group will use color markers to create a diagram to represent assigned characteristic of living things. • Each group at the end will present to the class the main ideas

  7. LG: What Makes Living Things Living? First Characteristic of Living Things • All living things are made of one or more cells. • What is a CELL? A cell is the smallest unit that carries on the functions of life.

  8. Unicellular vs. Multicellular • Uni-: single Ex: paramecium, amoeba, some yeasts • Multi-: many (more than one) Ex: plants, human

  9. LG: What Makes Living Things Living? SecondCharacteristic of Living Things • All living things have an ability to reproduce.

  10. LG: What Makes Living Things Living? Third Characteristic of Living Things • All living things use energy. Plants however use the sunlight to obtain their energy. Animals and humans eat food to obtain their energy.

  11. LG: What Makes Living Things Living? Third Characteristic of Living Things • All living things can obtain and use energy to carry out life processes. • Ex: digest food, exercise, move around… • Metabolism: chemical reactions occur in our body to convert nutrients to ENERGY

  12. Fourth Characteristic of Living Things • All living things must maintain homeostasis. • Homeostasis: internal stability • Ex: maintain constant temperature when outside is hot or cold Normal AVERAGE body temperature: 98.6ºF

  13. Fifth Characteristic of Living Things • All living things are able to pass on their characteristics from parents to their offspring through genes.

  14. Sixth characteristic of living things • All living things can evolve.

  15. Seventh characteristic of living things • All living things can interact with each other in a community. They all depend on each other for survival.

  16. LG: What Makes Living Things Living? EighthCharacteristic of Living Things • All Living things are highly organized. • For example a group of muscle cellscome together to form our muscles. • Contain 4 types chemicals: carbohydrate, proteins, lipid (fat), nucleic acid (DNA)

  17. Living vs. Non-living

  18. Classification of Living Things • http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/critters/critters.html

  19. 3 Domains of Life

  20. 5 Kingdoms

  21. King Philip Came Over For Good Spagetti

  22. Scientific Name • Also known as Binomial Nomenclature • Genus + Species. • ex: the scientific name for human is Homo sapiens Genus Species

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