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Characteristics of Life :, When obtaining nutrients organisms use them by…

- - - - Growth: The process by which living organisms increase in size by increasing the number of cells
      - These are related because living things are made of cells, and when the amount of cells increases they grow.
- - - - Biological transport: The process by which nutrients are carried from one location to another
      - These are related because when the body is reproducing, the nutrients has to get to the growing organism somehow. Biological transport makes this possible
- - - - Cellular Respiration: The process by which energy rich molecules are broken down to produce energy in the form of ATP
      - These are related because in order to grow and develop you have to have energy which is produced through cellular respiration.
- - - - Regulation: Maintaining an organism’s homeostasis
      - These are related because in order to respond to stimuli, living things need to be internally stable. The more unstable a living thing gets, the less it is able to respond
- - - - Synthesis: Utilizing the energy from cellular respiration to make other compounds necessary for life by combining simple substances chemically to form more complex substances
      - These are related because synthesis is necessary for making compounds necessary for life. If synthesis didn't happen, life would not be able to go on, and evolution wouldn't be able to happen
- - - - Excretion: The process by which the food containing waste materials released from the body into the environment from the distal end of the excretory tube
      - In order to maintain a stable living environment organisms have to get rid of waste materials in their body.
- - - - Reproduction: The process by which parents produce offspring
      - These are related because during reproduction, parents transfer DNA through the universal genetic code.