bio

Question 1

What are the shared characteristics of plants and animals?

Answer 1

Use energy for daily functions, compose many basic units of life, can reproduce and develop, respond to the environment

Question 2

Define autotroph.

Answer 2

Organism that makes their own food

Question 3

Define heterotroph.

Answer 3

Organism that cannot make their own food

Question 4

What type of growth do most plants exhibit?

Answer 4

Indeterminate growth

Question 5

What type of growth do most animals exhibit?

Answer 5

Determinate growth

Question 6

What are the two types of reproduction?

Answer 6

• Asexual
• Sexual

Question 7

What is asexual reproduction?

Answer 7

Does not involve the union of gametes, produces offspring identical to the parent, involves mitotic division

Question 8

What is sexual reproduction?

Answer 8

Requires the union of gametes, involves two parents, produces diverse offspring

Question 9

How do most animals develop compared to plants?

Answer 9

Animals take longer to develop than plants

Question 10

What is the process of fertilization in sexual reproduction?

Answer 10

Sperm + Egg = Zygote → Embryo

Question 11

What is sexual selection?

Answer 11

Species with certain characteristics are more likely to find a mate and reproduce

Question 12

What is pollination?

Answer 12

The process of transferring pollen to another angiosperm

Question 13

What are the three main processes of animal nutrition?

Answer 13

• Ingestion
• Digestion
• Absorption

Question 14

What is ingestion?

Answer 14

The process of taking in food

Question 15

What is digestion?

Answer 15

Breaking down food

Question 16

What is absorption?

Answer 16

Absorption of molecules needed in the intestines

Question 17

What are the two types of digestion?

Answer 17

• Intracellular Digestion
• Extracellular Digestion

Question 18

Define ectoparasitism.

Answer 18

The parasite is outside the body of the host

Question 19

What is budding?

Answer 19

Reproduce by forming a ‘bud’ in the node, commonly occurs in invertebrates

Question 20

What is fragmentation?

Answer 20

Produced from the fragments of the detached body of its parents

Question 21

What is binary fission?

Answer 21

A reproduction where unicellular organisms divide into two offspring identical to the parent

Question 22

What is vegetative reproduction?

Answer 22

A plant part is used to produce another plant

Question 23

What is parthenogenesis?

Answer 23

Egg develops without being fertilized

Question 24

What is hermaphroditism?

Answer 24

Reproduction that occurs in animals with both male and female reproductive organs

Question 25

What is morphogenesis?

Answer 25

Concerned with the shapes of tissues and organs

Question 26

What are the four important structures of plants?

Answer 26

• Roots
• Stem
• Leaves
• Flowers

Question 27

What is holzoic nutrition?

Answer 27

Organisms ingest solid or liquid food

Question 28

What is the difference between saprophytic and saprotrophic?

Answer 28

Both obtain nutrients from dead organic matter

Question 29

True or False: Plants are heterotrophic.

Answer 29

False

Question 30

Fill in the blank: The process of transferring pollen is called _______.

Answer 30

Pollination

Question 31

Fill in the blank: Most plants are _______ because they can make food on their own.

Answer 31

Autotrophic