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1 – understand how living organisms share the following characteristics: MRS C GREN
o Movement – can move
o Respiration – can respire either aerobically or
anaerobically
o Sensitivity – can sense stimuli and react to them
o Control – can control their internal conditions
o Growth – can grow and develop

o Reproduction - can have offspring, either
sexually or asexually
o Excretion – can excrete their waste
o Nutrition – can absorb nutrients, to grow
o If something doesn’t carry out all of these life
processes, it is either dead or non-living

B – Variety of living organisms:
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3 – describe the common features shown by prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria
Bacteria:
o Unicellular and very small
o Most eat off other organisms
o Lack of nucleus but circular chromosomes of DNA

o Some carry out photosynthesis
o Have plasmids, cell wall and cell membrane

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THE NATURE AND VARIETY OF LIVING ORGANISMS



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