Introduction to life processes
🌟 Introduction
You have questioned it many times that what is a life process? Why are they essential for living beings? Or why you feel so much energy when you drink a glucose drink like glucon-D. Or why you feel sensation when someone pinches you?
This chapter will give all the answers of you all questions. So are you ready to dive into the world of the chapter “Life processes”
To know about life processes, first we will discuss what are the characteristics of a living organism.
All the function a living organism perform is refer as their characteristics.
Example:
- Nutrition
- Respiration
- Transportation
- Excretion
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Movement and Co-ordination
Nutrition:- 🍎
📚Key concepts
🔷️The process of taking nutrients from the food is called nutrition.
Ex: carbohydrates, protein, fats, water, minerals etc.
Mode of nutrition:-
- Autotrophic mode of Nutrition🌱– when organism made their own food from inorganic matter. Ex: plants
- Heterotrophic mode of nutrition🐈– when organism obtain its food from other organism. Ex: Humans and amoeba