Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Finishing up Characteristics of life notes


Tuesday August 28th

All living organisms can be classified as prokaryotic or Eukaryotic.  These names tell you the type of Cell that make them up.  Of these two types, bacteria are considered Prokaryotic

An organism’s ability to maintain a constant internal environment in an ever-changing external environment is known as Homeostasis

Give me one example of this. Maintaining a constant body temperature, blood glucose level, blood oxygen level.  As well as MANY more!!!  ANY time our bodies start adjusting to a changing cellular environment to keep a constant internal environment is an example of homeostasis.

After the daily question we continued throught the notes on the characteristics of life including metabolism, reproduction, repsonse to stimuli and growth.  I hope that over the next three days we will be able to actually LOOK at some of these characteristics in real life!

Here were some of the slide we looked at.
How do we maintain a constant body temperature?!?!


Plants responding to their environment

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