Life - 1. Introduction and environmental response
Channel: SJOwens Science
Date: 2013-09-01

This video covers an introduction to living things and their ability to respond to the environment!  It is the first video in a series of focused on the most basic characteristics of living things.  There are six videos in this "Life" series, and it would be great if you checked them all out!  All topics covered in the video series are as follows:

All living things...
- respond to their environment
- grow and develop
- reproduce and have offspring
- have a complex chemistry
- maintain homeostasis
- are made of cells
- pass traits on to offspring
- change and evolve

Feel free to post questions about this video in the comments!

Source information about media contained within these videos can be found in the notes section of each slide in the presentation file available here for download:
http://www.fileswap.com/dl/mbQyXT0qZP/
(this file should open in Microsoft PowerPoint, but it is actually native to a free, open source office suite software called OpenOffice)

The free online textbook used as a source of information in these videos is found on the Wikibooks website at the following location:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_School_Biology_1-13.pdf