Question

A living thing must be made of cells, use energy, grow, respond to its environment, and reproduce. Explain how a single-celled living thing, like an amoeba, does all five of these things to stay alive. Write your answer in 1-2 sentences

Answer 1

An amoeba is itself a single cell containing organelles that carries out metabolism to get energy from engulfed food, grows by synthesizing new cell materials, moves and responds to stimuli using pseudopodia and chemical sensing, and reproduces asexually by dividing (binary fission).