Characteristics of Living Things

• Living things have a complex, organized structure that consists largely of organic molecules.

• Living things respond to stimuli from their environment.

• Living things actively maintain their complex structure and their internal environment.

• Living things acquire and use materials and energy from their environment and convert them into different forms.

• Living things grow.• Living things reproduce themselves, using a

molecular blueprint called DNA.• Living things, as a whole, have the capacity to

evolve.