1.1 Understand that 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.
  
  These are just the 8 characteristics of life, a good way to remember them is by using the anagram 'M.R.S.G.R.E.N' (sometimes known as M.R.S.N.E.R.G), or make up your own if you find it easier to remember.