Chapter 1- Overview Of Lifes Unity -1.2

Question 1

Energy

Answer 1

The capacity to do work which isn’t cycled

Question 2

Nutrient

Answer 2

Particular type of atom or molecule which has a role in growth and survival

Question 3

Producers

Answer 3

Get energy and simple run materials from the environment and make their own food

• plants are an example
• take up leftovers as nutrients

Question 4

Consumers

Answer 4

Cannot make food

• Get nutrients and energy indirectly by eating producers and organisms
• examples are animals and decomposers(Decomposers feed off waste or remains of organisms)

Question 5

Photosynthesis

Answer 5

Use energy from Sun to make sugars from carbon dioxide and water

Question 6

Energy

Answer 6

Flows through world of life in one direction from environment to producers then to consumers
-Therefore energy that enters the world of life lives permanently

Question 7

Receptor

Answer 7

Molecule or cellular structure that response to a form of simulation such as the energy of sunlight or mechanical energy of a bite

• stimulated receptors trigger changes in activities of organisms
• For example after eating the sugars from become added sugars are ready circulated in your blood

Question 8

Homeostasis

Answer 8

Sensing adjusting to change (organisms keep conditions in the internal environment with the range that favors cell survival)

Question 9

DNA

Answer 9

Signature molecule of life nucleic acid

Question 10

Enzymes

Answer 10

Without them activities wouldn’t occur fast enough versus to live so there would be no life or selves
-proteins that spread up chemical reactions

Question 11

Inheritance

Answer 11

Is a the production of new individuals that contain some portion of genetic (info) material inherited from one or more parent organisms.

Question 12

Reproduction

Answer 12

Mechanism by which parents transmit DNA to offspring

Question 13

Development

Answer 13

Orderly trans formation of the first sell to a new individual into an adult