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2.

1 Characteristics of living organisms


 Think about what
makes living organisms
different from non-
living things
 Describe the seven
characteristics of living
organisms
Living things are called organisms. Living organisms have a set of seven characteristics that make
them different from non-living things.
2.2 Viruses
 Discuss reasons for classifying
viruses as living or non-living.
What is a virus?
• Viruses are very, very small. A virus is much smaller
than one of your cells.
• To see a virus, you need to use a special kind of
microscope called an electron microscope.
• They are not made of cells. They do now have a cell
membrane or cytoplasm.
• Viruses cannot do anything at all on their own. They
do not respire, feed, excrete or grow.
• They are not sensitive and cannot move.
• Viruses have to get inside a living cell before they
can make copies of themselves.
2.3 What is a species?
 Describe a species as a group of organisms that can repdoruce to
produce fertile offspring.
Species
• Each kind of organism is called a species.
• All the organisms in a species share the same characteristics but they are not all identical to each other. For
example, some Indian elephants have straighter tusks than others. They have pink markings on their skin in
different places. There is variation between the individual Indian elephants.
• Indian elephants reproduce only with other Indian elephants. They do not reproduce with African elephants.
Eac species reproduces only with other members of its own species. When they have offspring (children),
the offspring belong to the same species as their parents.
• The offspring are fertile. This mean they can also produce offspring.
• Very rarely, two organism from different species do reproduce together. For example, a male lion
and female tiger ina zoo sometimes reproduce together. The young animals that are produced are
called ligers. Ligers are healthy animals, but cannot reproduce. They cannot have offspring. They
are infertile.
• So, we can describe a species as a group of organisms that can reproduce together to produce
fertile offspring.
2.4 Using keys
 Use and construct dichotomous
keys to classify species and
groups of related organisms.
• Biologists use keys to help them to identify
organisms.
• A key is a set of questions about the organism
you want to identify.
• You work through all of the questions until
you arrive the name of the organism.
• It is a dichotomous key. Dichotomous means
“branching into two”.
• To use the key:
Choose one organism you want to identify.
Starting at the top of the key, answer the first
question – yes or no?
Follow the line to the next question. Ekkp
going until you arrive at the name of the
organism.
2.5 Constructing keys
 Learn how to create your own key
 Learn how to change your key
following feedback

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