Thursday 3 January 2013

1.1 Understand that living organisms share the following characteristics:


  • they require nutrition
  • they respire
  • they excrete their waste
  • they respond to their surroundings
  • they move
  • they control their internal conditions
  • they reproduce
  • they grow and develop.


What you need to know is that to be a living organism you must do all of the above.

A good way to remember this is a pneumonic: Mrs C. Gren is one example, trying to think of the colour sea green may help.

Movement
Respiration
Sensitivity
Control
Grow
Reproduce
Excrete
Nutrition

Here, C can be replaced by H to represent homoeostasis (control of internal conditions).

20 comments:

  1. thanks from me and mariel <3 <3

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  2. This helps so much! Thank you! :)

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  3. Normally I use Mrs H Gren and the H is homeostasis

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  4. Amazing blog and is the most helpful thing there in this universe :)...Well Done

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    1. Wow thats strong praise! Haha thank you very much :)
      p.s. I have made a note of what you said about homoeostasis.

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  5. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this, really helping my year 9 igcse biology revision

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  6. cheers for the help. this has been extremely useful as last minute revision for all the sciences. :D

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  7. Heyy there! Your blogs have been SO helpful, they've helped me so so much. I hope God blesses you with a successful life ahead, Amen.
    I had a request though. Can you please refer me to a similar blog like yours which covers up the specifications of Human Bio?

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  8. Thanks hannah your blog has been so useful! However I can't find spec points 1.4, 1.5,1.6 and onwards, can you please direct me to them? Thank you

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  9. hey hannah new syllabus came ain't you gonna work on that

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