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Metabolism: describes all the chemical processes that occur within the body; such as catabolism (break down complex chemical substances), like in digestion; and anabolism (build up complex chemical substances), like in creating glycogen from glucose
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Responsiveness: organism's ability to react to and respond to changes in the environment around them/stimuli; can refer to external or internal stimuli and responses (such as when the environment around the body is too hot, sweat is triggered to cool the body down)
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Movement: refers to any sort of motion that an organism makes; can be gross movement (hands waving, legs moving), or microscopic (movement of cells and structures inside cells)
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Growth: refers to the body's ability to grow in size, both outwardly and inwardly (getting taller, limbs growing longer with age; aside from outward growth, can also refer to increase in cell number, growth of cells in size, etc.)
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Differentiation: organism's cells can develop from being unspecialized to specialized (stem cells can become muscle cells, blood cells, etc.)
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Reproduction: cells' ability to grow/repair/replace cells; can refer to mitosis (somatic cells divide to create new body cells) or meiosis (division of sex cells for the purpose of sexual reproduction); such as the formation and conception of a baby