Characteristics of Life

  • Living things have cells
    • unicellular - only one cell
    • multicellular - many cells
  • Living things sense and respond to change
  • Living things reproduce
    • Sexual - 2 parents: diversity in offspring
    • Asexual - 1 parent: Exact copy of parent cell
  • Living things have DNA
  • Living things use energy
    • Metabolism
  • Living things grow and develop