Growth and Repair in Living Things
Explore how living organisms grow, repair themselves, and the importance of cells in these processes.
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Growth and Repair in Living Things
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Use the provided space for your answers.
1. What are the basic building blocks of all living things?
Organs
Cells
Tissues
Systems
2. Which of the following is a way living things grow?
By getting smaller
By increasing the number of cells
By losing cells
By remaining the same size
3. When you cut your finger, your body uses cell to repair the wound.
4. Plants grow by producing new and getting taller.
5. All living things grow and change throughout their lives.
True
False
6. Only animals can repair damaged parts of their bodies.
True
False
7. Explain in your own words why growth and repair are important for living organisms.
Look at the image of the plant cell below.
8. How do cells like the one shown contribute to the growth of a plant?