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This chapter offers recommendations on basic knowledge about how living things function and how they interact with one another and their environment. The chapter focuses on six major subjects: the diversity of life, as reflected in the biological characteristics of the earth's organisms; the transfer of heritable characteristics from one generation to the next;
the structure and functioning of cells, the basic building blocks of all organisms; the interdependence of all organisms and their environment; the flow of matter and energy through the grand-scale cycles of life; and how biological evolution explains the similarity and diversity of life.
