The Levels of Organization of matter refers to the different degrees of complexity in which we can find matter organized. That is to say, that in each of the levels there are elements that, together, form a more complex structure with different characteristics and new properties. In turn, this structure, when grouped with other similar ones, is capable of forming an even more complex matter.
It is necessary to take into account that each of the levels of organization of the matter groups the previous ones, so we could imagine that they work like Russian dolls (matrioskas) that fit within the entrance, for example, the level of organization of matter, the molecule includes the atomic level, and at the subatomic level.
For example, cells are made up of simpler elements. Later, the cluster of cells is formed, among other structures, tissues and organs.
Let us now know the classification of the different levels of organization and what we find in them:
- Sub-atomic level: protons, neutrons and electrons (particles that, grouped together, form atoms).
- Atomic Level: Atoms (the smallest unit of matter that retains its properties).
- Molecular level: by joining different atoms, molecules are obtained. These molecules present, depending on the case, different degrees of complexity.
- Cellular level: here we find, for example, muscle cells and epithelial cells, simple cells that, when grouped, form the next level.
- Tissue level: for example, muscle or epithelial tissue: tissues made up of specialized cells.
- Organ level: the different tissues of the previous level come together to form organs. Therefore, for example, the heart is born.
- System level: Set of similar organs, formed by the same type of tissue, that perform a specific function of a system. For example, the muscular system.
- Device level: set of different bodies that work together, each one plays its role, in more complex functions. For example, the muscular system, the skeletal system and the nervous system work together to form the locomotor system, which allows the movement of living things.
- Organism level: the living being itself, in which organisms formed by many cells, or multicellular, and others formed by a single cell or unicellular coexist.
- Population level: organisms or living beings that share characteristics are grouped together giving rise to populations.
- Community level: depending on where they are established, populations form communities. Within this level we find the different species, which distinguish the organisms of a community from those of the rest of the communities.
- Ecosystem level: the ecosystem is the result of the interaction of living things with the place where they have settled, how they influence each other and adapt to survive.
- Landscape level: at this level we can find various ecosystems that coexist in a wide but determined geographical area.
- Region level: A grouping of different landscapes within a wider geographic area.
- Biome Level: A Biome is made up of large ecosystems that live under a specific type of climate, and of which they are characteristic, and that interact with each other to adapt to the environment and survive.
- Level of the biosphere: A group formed by living beings, inert beings and the physical environment in which they all find themselves and by the relationships established between them.
