Description: This photo shows a boy with his head stuck in a garden gate. It exemplifies the characteristics of organisms detecting and responding to stimuli. The boy's discomfort triggers his movement as he tries to free himself from the gate.

Source: Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5788145/Mischievous-boy-three-got-head-stuck-gate.html 

Score of 0 - 3 marks will be given to CA.

Groups based on class numbers
1-10: Search photo involving human
11-19: Search photo involving plant
20-28: Search photo involving organisms other than human and plant.

An Example is given below.

Write you class no. and your name as the title of the post (e.g. 30 Eddie)

Reproduce and grow

Description:

The photo is with some fungi growing in a log of wood, in the photos there are some smaller fungi and bigger fungi, which exemplifies the growing in size and complexity. The bigger fungi and smaller fungi exemplifies the reproduction of organisms, where the fungi create their offspring(smaller fungi).

Source:

https://www.wildabundance.net/blog/how-to-grow-mushrooms-on-logs/

Detecting and responding to stimuli, causing it to move.

Description:

This photo shows a shovel-snouted lizard, in which its action in the photo is often misunderstood as dancing. In reality, because shovel-snouted lizards are located in deserts, also because they are vulnerable to overheating, they alternate between their right and left feet (or sometimes even lift both feet), reacting to the heat when in contact with the hot sand.

Source: https://violahruzzier.substack.com/p/the-desert-lizard-dance

Description: This photo shows a man eating a bowl of salad. It exemplifies the characteristics of organisms obtaining food through the process of heterotrophic nutrition as the man obtains food by eating other organisms—for instance, plants. This also refers to the process of feeding.

Source: FamilyDoctor

https://familydoctor.org/men-eat-right-stay-healthy/

Obtain food and respire

Description:

This photo shows a woman eating lunch at a restaurant. It exemplifies the characteristics of organisms obtaining food and respiring. The woman obtains food in the process of heterotrophic nutrition. Some of the materials from food are used for growth and repair and some are broken to release energy through respiration. The energy can be used for carrying out vital functions such as reproduction.

Source: iStock https://www.istockphoto.com/hk/%E7%85%A7%E7%89%87/happy-young-woman-eating-lunch-at-a-restaurant-gm1372203097-441369673

Organism excrete to maintain a relative constant internal environment

Description:

This photo of a dog peeing, which is the characteristic of excretion. The dog is removing the metabolic waste from its body. An example of the metabolic waste is urea, which is diluted in water and excreted in the form of urine.

Source: https://share.google/images/Zq4Ub2njk1GumGOFU

Organisms reproduce and grow

Description:

This photo shows a baby growing to an adult, which is an example of offspring growing in size and in complexity too. After reaching maturity, the offspring will reproduce like their parents do.

Source:

Stock Adobe

https://stock.adobe.com/hk/search?k=kid+growing+up

Reproduction and growth

Description: this photo shows a small seed sprouting and growing into a larger plant, plants can reproduce through sexual and asexual reproduction, they can grow because of seeds and cell division, and they can develop different stages like roots, seedling then into a full plant

Source: https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=growing+plant

The process of obtaining food(Nutrition)

 Description: This photo shows a women eating a steak. It exemplifies the characteristics of organisms obtaining food. Since she doesn't produce the steak(making her own food), she obtains food by the process of Heterotrophic nutrition, where organisms obtain food by feeding on other organisms.

Sorce:istock 

https://www.istockphoto.com/hk/%E5%9C%96%E7%89%87/women-eating-steak-dieting

- Detecting and responding to stimuli

Description

- This photo shows sunflowers turning to fact towards the sun. It shows the characteristics of organisms detecting and responding to stimuli. The sunflowers respond to the light stimulus by turning its bloom to face the sun so that it can absorb light better for photosynthesis to support its growth and sustaining its life.

Source

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262928232_Turning_heads_The_biology_of_solar_tracking_in_sunflower

Description: This photo shows a photo of a seahorse giving birth. Seahorses are renowned for its unique reproduction process, where females deposit their eggs during mating. The male fertilises the egg and carries them for several weeks. In the photo, the yellow strands in the background represent the newly hatched eggs. This is a very remarkable reproductive strategy, it highlights the intricacies of marine life.

Source: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/09/06/new-research-discovers-the-elaborate-and-unique-way-seahorse-fat.html#:~:text=In%20seahorses%20and%20pipefish%2C%20it,and%20development%20of%20baby%20seahorses.

Obtain food, nutrition, growth , reproduce

Description :

In the photo, there is a big bird and a small bird, this shows the reproduction organism. The bird is feeding its young, it is providing nutrients to its offspring, ensuring its survival and development. It also shows growth because if the offspring eats ( get nutrients ), it will grow in size and complexity.

Source :

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F404127766563576929%2F&psig=AOvVaw3IrgfaWqhyCojVu1O3BwR7&ust=1758114508083000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBUQjRxqFwoTCKijjqCt3Y8DFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE

Detecting and responding to stimuli and move

Description: This photo shows the tree’s growth response to the water source, which is triggered by a moisture gradient. This makes the roots of the tree bend and grow towards the place with higher water potential, which allows them to access water and nutrients.

Source: Shuttershock

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/hydrotropism?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Excretion

Description:

This woman is exhaling air, including carbon dioxide, which is a form of excretion, a characteristic of organisms,to remove the metabolic waste(a chemical reaction inside our body like urea). It helps to keep the homeostasis so that a stable environment can be provided for cells to make up organisms.

Photo source:

https://www.istockphoto.com/hk/%E7%85%A7%E7%89%87/black-woman-breath-and-hand-on-chest-for-meditation-and-wellness-being-peaceful-to-gm2149153835-570383441

Reproduction and growth

Description: this photo shows a potato with stems and leaves growing from the potato. This shows asexual reproduction where there is only one parent involved. Other than asexual reproduction, plants can also perform sexual reproduction which two parents are involved, and also developing into different stages for a plant to grow.

Source: https://study.com/academy/lesson/asexual-plant-reproduction-lesson-for-kids.html

Nutrition

Description:

In the photo, it shows some flowers facing the Sun, the Sun is hitting the flowers, giving them nutrition by photosynthesis , from the Sun’s rays, the plant absorbs the sunlight turning it into starch

Source:

https://pin.it/3yrW4nMFs

Description: The photo above shows a piece of mouldy bread, the mould is in multiple places, showing its reproduction of organisms, which happens through microscopic, air-borne spores, which are released to find damp surfaces to germinate and grow.

Source:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fclearrestore.com%2Ffood-mold-infest-house%2F&psig=AOvVaw2m9i3p8BLDqv2I3QpE6tXP&ust=1758119902003000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CAMQjB1qFwoTCNi_k5XB3Y8DFQAAAAAdAAAAABAb

Characteristics of Organisms. Demonstrated: Photosynthesis

Description: This image shows a green plant basking in sunlight. The leaves are absorbing light energy, which shows the process of photosynthesis. This process allows the plant to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen, demonstrating the feeding and respiration of plants.

Photosynthesis: What is it and how does it work? - BBC Science ...

Description:

The photo shows a flower reproducing through pollination. Pollination is the process of transferring pollen grains from one flower to the stigma of another, which allows the flower to become fertilized and produce seeds, which will evantually grow into new flowers. This process is how plants sexually reproduce.

Pollination involves pollinators which transfer pollen from one flower to another. In this case, the bee is acting as the pollinator, carrying the pollen from the flower on her fuzzy body.

Source:istock

Characteristics of organisms demonstrated:

growth of sunflower

Description:

the time-lapse photo series shows a plant sprouting from a seed and growing into a mature plant.It clearly demonstrates the characteristic of growth, as the organism increases in size and mass over time through cell division and enlargement

Source:

https://www.littleyellowwheelbarrow.com/sunflower-growth-stages/

Obtaining food through heterotrophic nutrition.

Description :

This photo shows a woman eating a big sandwich, filled with various ingredients . It’s shows the process of heterotrophic nutrition, where organisms ,like humans,are heterotrophic because they rely on consuming a variety of foods (like sandwiches)for energy and nutrients This is essential for growth and health.

Source :

https://www.freepik.com/premium-photo/hungry-woman-eat-sandwich-gluttony-overweight-because-harmful-fast-food-unhealthy-eating_7035777.htm

Detecting and responding to stimuli and movement

Description:

This photo shows a student responding to the teacher’s question by raising his hand. It exemplifies the characteristics of irritability and movement. The student senses the question and reacts to it, causing movement as he lifts his hand up as part of the response.

Source:

https://www.youngpostclub.com/homePage/yp

Description:

This photo shows a fly flying onto the venus flytrap, and the plant starts to close. It exemplifies the characteristics of a venus flytrap’s ability to detect and react to stimuli. source: https://share.google/0bqDodTKqOJX2Cys9

https://share.google/r2s0J4Ht15SIi642g

homeostasis/excretion

Description:

The picture shows a woman whom I will assume has just finished working out with a back full of sweat, It exemplifies the characteristics of organisms excreting the sweat which contributes to homeostasis as it is the maintenance of a relatively consistent internal environment such as body temperature.

Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/30/1022546464/why-sweat-is-a-human-superpower

Description: in this photo the dragonflies are mating , which is a process of reproduction