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- What Is Living
- Biology-Introduction
- Classification of Organism
- Study of Cell - Cytology
- Genetics
- Sex Determination in Human
- Organic Evolution
- Classification of Plantae / Virus & Bacteria
- Plant Morphology
- Plant Tissue
- Photosynthesis
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- Classification of Animal Kingdom
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What is Living
- The word living cannot be defined.
- Living organism mostly uses solar energy.
- There are certain characters by which living can be distinguished from non living.
1. Growth: Increase in the number of cell or mass is called growth.
2. Reproduction: Living organism produce young ones of their same kind.
3. Metabolism: Chemical reaction occurring inside a living cell.
4. Response to stimuli: Living has the ability to sense the condition of their surrounding and respond to these stimuli.
- When we touch leaves of “Touch me not” Plant they close, these movements are called sesmonastic movement.
- Life on earth is originated by chemosynthesis was proved in laboratory by the scientist - Miller
- J.B.S. Haldane suggested that life must have developed from simple inorganic molecule.
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