The following sub-topics are covered in this section. 

(a) Characteristics of living organisms 

(b) Variety of living organisms

Students should:

1.1 understand how living organisms share the following characteristics: 

• they require nutrition 

• they respire 

• they excrete their waste 

• they respond to their surroundings 

• they move 

• they control their internal conditions 

• they reproduce 

• they grow and develop.