UNIT 1. Diversity What is life?

Key themes of what define life:

organization able to control all life processes and irritability ability to respond to the environment contractility the ability to move nutrition able to ingest, digest, absorb, and assimilate metabolism and growth able to take energy from food and covert it to mechanical work, and to rebuild simple units into complex protoplasm in the cell respiration able to take in oxygen for the oxidation of food, to release energy, and to get rid of the resulting carbon dioxide excretion able to eliminate the products of waste reproduction able to reproduce the species