Characteristics And Variety Of Living Organisms

Question 1

What do plants store carbohydrates as?

Answer 1

Starch or sucrose

Question 2

Which category of living organisms does this description come from? ‘Their body is organised into a mycelium made from thread like structures called hyphae’

Answer 2

Fungi

Question 3

Which category has cell walls made of chitin?

Answer 3

Fungi

Question 4

Which is saprotrophic nutrition

Answer 4

Feeding by extra cellular secretion of digestive enzymes onto food material and absorption of the organic products

Question 5

How do fungi store carbohydrates?

Answer 5

As glycogen

Question 6

An example of a fungi?

Answer 6

Mucor

Question 7

What do bacteria have instead of a nucleus?

Answer 7

A circular chromosome of DNA

Question 8

Example of bacteria?

Answer 8

Lactobacillus bulgaricus (yogurt and milk) pneumococcus (pathogen which causes pneumonia)

Question 9

An example of Protoctists?

Answer 9

Plasmodium (causes malaria)

Question 10

What is a virus?

Answer 10

Parasitic particles which reproduce inside living cells, which come in a variation of shapes and sizes with a protein coat and either DNA or RNA

Question 11

Why are viruses not living organisms?

Answer 11

They can not reproduce on their own, have to be inside a host cell They can not respire Do not excrete Do not grow Much smaller, no cell wall, no cell membrane, there is a protein coat

Question 12

What are the 8 life processes which are common to most living things?

Answer 12

Movement

Respiration

Sensitivity

Growth

Reproduction

Excretion

Nutrition

Homeostasis

Question 13

What is an enzyme?

Answer 13

a biological catalyst

Question 15

How do animals store carbohydrates?

Answer 15

As glycogen