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Characteristics of Life Flashcards

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1
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TRUE OR FALSE?

Living organisms are made up of cells

A

TRUE

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TRUE OR FALSE?

Living organisms are only mutli-cellular.

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FALSE. They can either be unicellular or multicellular.

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Organisms that are made up of one cell.

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Unicellular organisms

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Organisms that are made up of more than one cell.

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Multi-cellular organisms

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TRUE OR FALSE?

Living organisms reproduce (reproduction)

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TRUE

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A type of reproduction that requires one parent.

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Asexual

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A type of reproduction that requires two parents.

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Sexual

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Living organisms are based on a universal genetic code, which is?

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DNA

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TRUE OR FALSE?

DNA is the genetic code found in every cell.

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TRUE

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10
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It is inherited from parents and controls your traits.

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DNA

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TRUE OR FALSE?

Living organisms grow and develop.

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TRUE

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TRUE OR FALSE?

Most living things grow and develop during the least part of their life.

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FALSE. It should be all living things.

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TRUE OR FALSE?

Living organisms obtain and use materials and energy.

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TRUE

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It is the chemical reactions in the body’s cells that change food into energy.

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Metabolism

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TRUE OR FALSE?

Living organisms respond to their environment.

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TRUE

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Organisms detect and respond to _____ from their environment.

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Stimuli (or signals)

17
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Living Organisms need a constant supply of ____ and ____.

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materials and energy

18
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signal comes from inside the organism

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Internal Stimuli

19
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signal comes from outside the organism

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External Stimuli

20
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Living organisms maintain a _________ environment

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stable internal

21
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TRUE OR FALSE?

Despite changing conditions around them, an organism must keep its internal conditions stable/balanced.

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TRUE

22
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It is the process of keeping the internal environment stable/balanced/constant.

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Homeostasis

23
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over hundreds, thousands, and millions of years, organisms have the potential to change

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Evolution

24
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TRUE OR FALSE?

Taken as a group, living organisms change over time

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TRUE

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