Biod 101- Module 2 Questions And
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organism - ANSWER✔✔ Individual living creature
characteristics that differentiate living and nonliving things - ANSWER✔✔ Order,
Evolutionary Adaptation, Regulation, Energy Processing, Growth and
Development, Response to the Environment, and Reproduction
highly ordered structures are comprised of the basic unit of life which is the
__________. - ANSWER✔✔ cell
evolutionary adaptation (or generational evolution) - ANSWER✔✔ smaller,
genetic changes that allow for better survival of an organism
(T/F) Maintaining homeostasis is crucial so that living organisms can thrive -
ANSWER✔✔ True
deviations from the optimal conditions requires ______________
_______________ and show not be confused with adaptation - ANSWER✔✔
regulatory processes
examples of regulatory processes - ANSWER✔✔ •shivering to generate body heat
in humans
•regulation of blood flow through an organism
metabolism - ANSWER✔✔ sum of the biochemical reactions in a living organism
,in order to sustain life, biochemical reactions are utilized to produce
_______________. - ANSWER✔✔ energy
living organisms must obtain ______________ ________ or use metabolic
processes to produce their own energy - ANSWER✔✔ biological fuel
many prokaryotes use organic substances, metabolizing them via
____________________ ____________________. - ANSWER✔✔ anaerobic
respiration
plants use light to trap energy through the process of __________________. -
ANSWER✔✔ photosynthesis
animals ingest food & use biomacromolecules as apart of anaerobic respiration to
produce _____________ for ________________ _______________. -
ANSWER✔✔ ATP; cellular energy
the generation of new offspring is always accompanied by distinct
_______________ & ________________ changes - ANSWER✔✔ growth;
development
adaptation - ANSWER✔✔ a change or a process that allows an organism to
become better suited for their environment
stimulus - ANSWER✔✔ anything that causes an organism to respond
(T/F) Adaptations can be physical or behavioral - ANSWER✔✔ True
an example of a physical adaptation - ANSWER✔✔ a crab's hard shell
,an example of a behavioral adaptation - ANSWER✔✔ a squirrel hibernating
through the winter
sexual reproduction - ANSWER✔✔ involves the fusion of two gametes (one from
each parent) that will unite and grow into a new offspring
asexual reproduction - ANSWER✔✔ gives rise to new offspring from a single
organism
examples of asexual reproduction - ANSWER✔✔ spore formation (protozoa,
bacteria, plants & fungi)
•binary fission (prokaryotes & some eukaryotic protozoa such as amoeba)
•vegetative reproduction (some fruit-bearing plants, such as strawberry plants)
•budding (fungi, bacteria, some plants, and fewer animals like the hydra)
•fragmentation (segmented worms and echinoderms like starfish)
the levels of biological organization - ANSWER✔✔ biosphere, ecosystem,
communities, populations, and organisms
biosphere - ANSWER✔✔ the broadest level of planet earth and the atmosphere; all
capable of sustaining living organisms
ecosystem - ANSWER✔✔ the systems of living and non-living things in a region
examples of ecosystems - ANSWER✔✔ •grasslands
•forests
•tundra
, •savanna
•aquatic regions
•rainforests
•coral reefs
(T/F) ecosystem includes the plants, organisms, soils, and climate conditions
associated with the area - ANSWER✔✔ True
communities - ANSWER✔✔ all the collective organisms living within a biological
ecosystem
population - ANSWER✔✔ a group of one particular species living within defined
boundaries of a community
(T/F) only one type of population makeup a community - ANSWER✔✔ False.
several different types of populations makeup a community
organisms - ANSWER✔✔ individual living members of a population
successive levels of organization from the most specific level to the broadest level
- ANSWER✔✔ atom --> molecule --> macromolecule --> cell --> tissue --> organ
--> organ system --> organism --> population --> community --> ecosystem -->
biosphere
the hierarchial system of classification was first developed by ______________
________________ in the 18th century - ANSWER✔✔ Carolus Linnaeus
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