Download - What is Life & Levels of Organization
What is Life & Levels of Organization
Add the definitions & make 3 quick sketches in your note taker
and add stars according to the directions.
Biotic (biogenic)• Living• Dead
Abiotic (Not now or ever)
• Non-living
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Biotic or Abiotic??
Name the biotic and abiotic factors in the picture:
Biotic:• trees• shrubs• dead wood
Abiotic:• water• snow• air/wind• sun• soil
Add to notetaker…• There are 5 characteristics of all living
things (organisms):• 1. Organization (cells)
• 2. Metabolism (use energy/make waste)
• 3. Grow and develop• 4. Reproduce• 5. Respond and adapt
To be or not to be…• There are 5 characteristics of all
living things (organisms):• 1. Organization (cells)• 2. Metabolism (use energy/make waste)
• 3. Grow and develop• 4. Reproduce• 5. Respond and adapt
Grab a text book and look up key words & ideas about each
of the 5 characteristics in chapter 1.1
Any living thing is called an organism
• But where do organisms come from?
Past and Present Ideas about the Origin of Life.
Where does life come from?
• Spontaneous generation- A theoretical process by which life begins when ethers enter nonliving things.
Olde Tyme Recipe for Life
“It is enough to fill a container with corn and to cover it with a dirty shirt. After a few days, one sees appearing the mice.”
-JB van Helmont (1577-1644)
Redi’s ExperimentProcedures:1. Fill 3 jars with rotting meat2. Leave one jar open, cover one
with lid, cover one with mesh3. Leave jars out and observe which
jars maggots grow in
Maggots inside
No maggots Maggots on mesh
Biogenesis• Biogenesis is the principle that
life comes only from life. “Bio-” literally means “life”and genesis means “beginning.”
The diagrams on Figure 1-21 in your notetaker shows the levels that life can be organized into.
1. Come up with a memorization strategy for each level & put it in the box on the right
2. Quiz your partner on the levels from highest to lowest
Quiz on this notetaker Friday!
Closure• If a strange new sample was brought back from
Mars, it may look like nothing we’ve ever seen before. Explain briefly how you would test to see if it was a living organism! Use and underline at least 3 vocabulary terms in your answer.