Chapter 1: Life-Chemical, Cellular, and Evolutionary Foundations

Question 1

What are the characteristics of living organisms?

Answer 1

Complexity, with precise spatial organization on several scales
The ability to change in response to environment
Ability to reproduce
Capacity to evolve

Question 2

What does the living and nonliving world have in common?

Answer 2

They both follow the same chemical rules and obey the same physical laws.

Question 3

First Law of Thermodynamics

Answer 3

Energy can neither be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another.

Question 4

Second Law of Thermodynamics

Answer 4

The degree of disorder (or the number of possible positions and motions of molecules) in the universe tend to increase

Question 5

Entropy (of a system)

Answer 5

The amount of disorder (or the number of possible positions and motions of molecules)

Question 6

Based on Redi and Pasteur’s experiments, the scientific method shows that….

Answer 6

LIVING ORGANISMS COME FROM OTHER LIVING ORGANISMS