Slide Levels of bio organization

Levels of Organization... • Same type of organism living together... • A biotic living community plus the abiotic nonliving features... • Similar ecosystems on earth together... Biospher

Levels of Organization

• Smallest part of matter

• NON-living

Molecules

• 2 or more bonded atoms

• Form compounds

• NON-living

• Very large molecules

• Proteins, fats, carbohydrates, nucleic acids

• NON-living

• “Tiny organs”

• Made of macromolecules

• Made of organelles

• Basic unit of structure & function

• LIVING

• The same kind cell working together

• Living

• Tissues that work together

• Living

• Organs that work together

• Living

• Entire living things

(organisms)

• Usually made of

systems

• May be a single cell

• Living

• Same type of organism living together

• Several populations living together

• Population interact

• A biotic (living) community plus the abiotic (nonliving) features

• Similar ecosystems on earth together

Biosphere

• Whole living layer around the globe

• Includes abiotic features

http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch8en/conc8en/envisys.html

Atom Molecule

Macromolecule

Organelle

Cell

Tissue Organ System Organism

Population Community Ecosystem Biome Biosphere