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Oct 5, 2020 · MRS GREN. Living things display certain characteristics that may be absent from material objects. MRS GREN is an acronym often used to help remember all the necessary features of living organisms: Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition.
Jun 12, 2012 · One of the broadest groupings is 'living' and 'non-living'. This may sound simple, but it is sometimes difficult to decide whether something is truly alive or not. Here we look at the characteristics of living things – using earthworms as an example.
- Movement – the Spider monkey will move in the trees to look for food and avoid predators.
- Respiration – they breathe oxygen and make energy from it’s food.
- Sensitivity – the monkey can see with its eyes, can taste food and hear noise.
- Growth – they grow from being a baby and develop into adults.
- Lisa Bartee, Walter Shriner, Catherine Creech
- 2017
- Order. Organisms are highly organized, coordinated structures that consist of one or more cells. Even very simple, single-celled organisms are remarkably complex: inside each cell, atoms make up molecules; these in turn make up cell organelles and other cellular inclusions.
- Sensitivity or Response to Stimuli. Organisms respond to diverse stimuli. For example, plants can bend toward a source of light, climb on fences and walls, or respond to touch (Figure 2).
- Reproduction. Single-celled organisms reproduce by first duplicating their DNA, and then dividing it equally as the cell prepares to divide to form two new cells.
- Growth and Development. All living things increase in size and/or change over their lifespan. For example, a human grows from a baby into an adult and goes through developmental processes such as puberty.
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Description. Plants are alive; they grow, eat, move and reproduce. We visit Kew Gardens to look for evidence that plants are living things. Classroom Ideas. A useful clip to explore the subject...
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