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The six traits that are the hallmark of life

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1-Cellularity
2-Acquisition and use of energy
3-Responsiveness to environment
4-Growth
5-Homeostasis 
6-Reproduction
2
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In what consist the cellularity

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In single cell organism and and multicellular organisms, the cell is the basic structure of all living things.

3
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Why the living things need energy?

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Because we need some potential to do all our activites and keep functional our body, our energy is the food and we waste it in our body procces.

4
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What is irritability?

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Is a trait of the living things that our body respond to the outside environment, for example, we respond to the temperature.

5
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What process do the cell that we’re able to grow?

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when we grow it means that the cell reproduces in a lot more of them, and they reproduce by cell división.

6
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Why living things reproduce?

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Because we need to keep the humankind in earth or the plants, or animals.

7
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What types of reproduces are?

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sexualy, that produce genetic diversity because two of the same specie share their genes and asexually, thisproduce other living thing identical to them.

8
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What are the levels of organization of life?

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is the start of what you are made of, the levels are:
1-Atom
2-Molecule
3-Tissue
4-Organ
5-Organ system