What Are The Seven Shared Characteristics

1. Living things have seven shared characteristics connecting all of them: reproduction, growth and development, energy use, order, cells, response to the environment, and evolution. When reproducing, all organisms birth their own species and never stray from the natural instinct. After birth, the organism matures and thanks to information they acquire genetically, develop certain features. An example of this is male deer producing antlers in adolescence. While maturing and throughout its entire life, the deer consumes energy through nourishment and uses it as a driving force to move and carry out normal functions.
All living things, like the deer, have a specific arrangement of features that defines them as a species; also known as the order in which they naturally follow. Part of the natural consistencies of organisms is that they are all made up of cells and can respond to their environmental changes. This usually entails temporary changes, such as a pig rolling in the mud to keep cool on a particularly sunny day. A more permanent change would be the organism evolving over the course of generations to adapt to its environment, such as how
A modern-day example of how evolution affects people would be that our resistance to common diseases and the like has increased drastically. Currently, we are outrunning malaria due to evolution. There is even a specific gene that, if you possess it, it will protect your red blood cells from the malaria parasite. Evolution is who we have to thank for more and more people being born with this gene, and others, that helps us keep a step ahead of some parasites, viruses, and disease. Living in cities may also play a part, several people living in close quarters exposes them to viruses at young ages in small doses so they can develop immunity to them. These and other adaptations over generations play a part in our being a little more resistant to the things that used to kill our ancestors at the ripe age of thirty