[BIO 100] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 14 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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Life: something that is alive is not dead. Living things have in common: reproduction. Reproduction is not essential for the survival of individual organisms, but must occur for a species to survive. All living things reproduce in one of the following ways: Asexual reproduction - producing offspring without the use of gametes. Sexual reproduction - producing offspring by the joining of sex cells: growth and development. Cell division - the orderly formation of new cells. Cell enlargement - the increase in size of a cell. Cells grow to a certain size and then divide. An organism gets larger as the number of its cells increases: living organisms have dna (hereditary material, energy use (metabolism) Living things take in energy and use it for maintenance and growth: order aka organization. Living things must be able to organize simple substances into complex ones. Living things organize cells at several levels: Tissue: group of cells that perform a common function.
