Organisms and environments

6.13(B)

Sorting Living Things Into Groups

Identify and compare the basic characteristics of organisms, including prokaryotic and eukaryotic, unicellular and multicellular, and autotrophic and heterotrophic.

Part of The student knows that organisms have an organizational structure and variations can influence survival of populations

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Sorting Living Things

Scientists sort every living thing by asking three questions: What does the inside of its cells look like? How many cells does it have? How does it get its food? Each question has two possible answers, giving us three pairs to compare organisms.