All living things need these things: Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, Nutrition.
Classification of living things are broken into kingdoms, Such as: Bacteria, Archaea, Protista, Funghi, Plantae and Animals.
Key Vocabulary
Vocabulary Definition
Asexual
Not involving the fusion of gametes.
Fertilised
The fusion of gametes to give rise to a new individual organism.
Gametes
An organism's reproductive cell.
Genetics
A branch of biology concerned with the study of genes.
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
Reproduction
The biological process by which new individual organisms- offspring are produced from their parents.
Sexual
Involving gametes.
Life Cycles
All living things have a life cycle and each stage is as important as the last.
Different organisms all have different life cycles.
Tadpoles and caterpillars go through a transformation called metamorphosis. They change into a completely different creature.
Tadpoles grow a spine, lungs and even change their digestive system so they can consume worms and insects. Tadpoles change into toads, caterpillars change into butterflies.