Question

Name the basic life processes common to all living organisms which are essential for maintaining life.

Answer 1

• Nutrition: Consuming food to gain energy and materials for growth and repair.
• Respiration: Breaking down food using oxygen to release cellular energy.
• Transportation: Moving gases, nutrients, and wastes throughout the body’s systems.
• Excretion: Eliminating toxic chemical waste products made during metabolic activities.
• Control and Coordination: Detecting changes in the environment and responding to those stimuli.
• Growth: Increasing permanently in physical size or total cell number over time.
• Reproduction: Creating new individual offspring to guarantee the species survives.