The properties of non-living things have, complexity, movement, and response to stimuli.

1)      Non-living Properties (p. 17) –

All living things share five basic properties. Cellular organization, metabolism, homeostasis, growth and reproduction, and heredity.

2)      Living Properties (p. 17) –

The transfer of energy from one form to another in cells.

3)      Metabolism (p. 17) –

Organism that act to keep their interior conditions relatively constant.

4)      Homeostasis (p. 17) -

Evolution is genetic change in a species over time. Those organisms whose characteristics that make them better able to reproduce, passing their favorable characteristics on to their offspring.

5)      Natural Selection (p. 20) –

A collection of related hypothesis that have been tested many times and not rejected.

6)      Theory (p. 23) –

All living organisms consist of cells.

7)      Cell theory (p. 26) –

The proteins and the RNA molecules encoded by an organism’s genes determines what it will be like.

8)      Gene theory (p. 26) –

The genes of an organism are inherited are inherited as discrete units.

9)      Theory of heredity (p. 28) –

Advanced by Charles Darwin in 1859, attributes the diversity of the living world to natural selection.

10)      Theory of evolution (p. 28) –