01. Introduction to Biology [DEFINITIONS]

Question 1

Natural Resources

Answer 1

Sources of materials and energy found naturally which are used in everyday life and for economic development.

Question 2

Sustainable Food Production

Answer 2

The production of sufficient amounts of food for the human population using environmentally safe methods.

Question 3

Metabolism

Answer 3

Metabolism is the sum of all chemical activities taking place in an organism.

Question 4

Irritability

Answer 4

Irritability is an organism’s ability to respond to a stimuli from both internal and external environment.

Question 5

Adaptation

Answer 5

Adaptation is a pecularity of structure, physiology or behavior that promotes the likelihood of an organism’s survival and reproduction in a particular environment.

Question 5

Heredity

Answer 5

Organisms have genes that pass from one generation to the next and control specific physiological, morphological and behavioral characters of organisms.

Question 6

Evolution

Answer 6

Ability of organisms to change over time as a result of genetic modification is evolution

Question 7

Growth

Answer 7

Irreversible increase in dry mass of an organism

Question 8

Development

Answer 8

Irreversible changes that occur during the life span of an organism