NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Living things grow, change, produce waste, reproduce, and die. Some examples of living things are organisms such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. Organisms interact with the living and nonliving things in their ecosystem to survive. A forest is a type of ecosystem.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nature has its own recycling system: a group of organisms called decomposers. Decomposers feed on dead things: dead plant materials such as leaf litter and wood, animal carcasses, and feces.

Detailed explanation-3: -Biomass is matter composed of the remains of dead organisms (organic matter) such as plants and animals and their waste products.

Detailed explanation-4: -Organisms respond to stimuli from their environment and actively maintain their internal environment through homeostasis. They grow and reproduce, transferring their genetic information to their offspring.

Detailed explanation-5: -A heterotroph is an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.