Question

What are the traditionally regarded basic characteristics that unify all living organisms ?

Answer 1

Basic characteristics that unify all living organisms are:

1. Growth: All living organisms show growth in terms of increase in size.

2. They respond to the external environmental stimuli.

3. Adaptation: They adapt themselves to the external environment over the period.

4. Reproduction: They reproduce to maintain their number.

5. Metabolism: They respire and excrete waste material.

6. Organization: They are made up of the basic unit of life, cell.

7. They require food.

8. Locomotion: They show locomotion, that is they move from one place to another.

9. Homeostasis: Internal regulation of the environment to maintain a constant, balanced state.