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What is Biology and What is Life?. Warm-up-in notebooks. What is your goal for this course? Learn the material for future reference Pass the course Earn an A Pass this course because you need it to graduate. What Are We Going to Be Talking About?. Homeostasis. Cells. Reproduction.
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Warm-up-in notebooks What is your goal for this course? • Learn the material for future reference • Pass the course • Earn an A • Pass this course because you need it to graduate
What Are We Going to Be Talking About? Homeostasis Cells Reproduction Energy Organization
Biology • Science of life • Bio – Life • Logy – Study • Biologist studies the interactions of life and make observations that can help the future. People are curious by nature therefore asking the question …..WHY?
Characteristics of Life • Organization • Reproduction • Growth and Development • Adjustment to Environment • Adaptation
Characteristics of Life • 1. Organization • Cell – smallest part of a living thing • Tissue – a group of cells • Organ – a group of tissues • Organ system – group of organs • Organism – a complete and entire living thing
Warm-Up What is a group of cells called? • An Organism • A tissue • Life • A prison
Warm-Up • Organize these into the correct order from smallest to biggest • Cell • Tissue • Organism • Organ
Characteristics of Life • 2. Reproduction • A way of making more of it’s self. • Asexual – one parent (plants, fungi, protists, bacteria) • Sexual – two parents Species – a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offsprings in nature
Characteristics of Life • 3. Growth and Development • Increase in the amount of living material and formation of new structures • Changes that organisms have during life
Characteristics of Life • 4. Adjustments to their environment • React to Stimulus & Response • Homeostasis– maintain balance (temp.) • Energy is required to complete the process that is obtained from food
Characteristics of Life • 5. Adaptation • Hereditary traits that are present • Evolution is the adaptation of organisms over time
Mini-Lab Activity • Characteristics of Life Lab • Using Books…define main Characteristics • 12 Stations….Give Conditions And Reasons for Decision…..COMPLETE SENTENCES
6 Kingdoms of Living Things: • Archaebacteria • Eubacteria • Protist • Fungi • Plants • Animals