Chapter 1.2

Question 1

What differentiates non living things from living things

Answer 1

Living things:
Respond to changes in the environment
Metabolize
Reproduce
Evolve

Question 2

How does biologist Gerald Joyce define life

Answer 2

A Chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution

Question 3

Give 4 key characteristics of living organisms

Answer 3

Complexity, with precise spatial organization on several scales
The ability to change in response to the environment
The abilities to metabolize and to reproduce
The capacity to evolve

Question 4

What quality do living and non living things share?

Answer 4

Both are subject to the laws of chemistry and physics

Question 5

What is the first law of thermodynamics

Answer 5

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form into another

Question 6

Organisms obtain energy from……. And ……..

Answer 6

Sun
Chemical compounds

Question 7

What is the second law of thermodynamics

Answer 7

The degree of disorder in the universe tends to increase

Question 8

Entropy refers to

Answer 8

The amount of disorder in a system

Question 9

Who hypothesized that maggots came from flies and are not spontaneously generated

Answer 9

Francesco Redi

Question 10

Who hypothesized that microbes come from microbes and are not spontaneously generated and that if they were, they would reappear in sterilized broth without the addition of microbes

Answer 10

Louis Pasteur