Characteristics Of Life

Question 1

Living things are made of one or more ____

Answer 1

Cells

Question 2

All organisms have units of information or genetic materials, whether RNA or DNA, that contained in their cells as a blueprint of their entire characteristics.

Answer 2

Genetic control

Question 3

Living things also display organization, which means they are arranged in an orderly way.

Answer 3

Display Growth

Question 4

Tissues are organized into _____.

Answer 4

organs

Question 5

________ work together to support an organism.

Answer 5

Organ systems

Question 6

Growth results in the addition of mass to an organism and, in many organisms, the formation of new cells and new structures.

Answer 6

Grows and Develops

Question 7

A species is a group of organisms that can breed with one another and produce fertile offspring.

Answer 7

Reproduces

Question 8

This involves a single parent. The progeny is genetically identical to the parent.

Answer 8

Asexual Reproduction

Question 9

two types of Species’ perpetuation

Answer 9

Asexual and sexual reproduction

Question 10

_______ a process of bacterial cell division.

Answer 10

Binary Fission

Question 11

Cutting, budding, marcotting, and drafting which are typical for _______.

Answer 11

propagating plants

Question 12

________ is an asexual reproduction, which an organism is split into many sections capable of becoming an adult.

Answer 12

Fragmentation

Question 13

This type of reproduction involves two parents. The progeny are genetically diverse.

Answer 13

Sexual Reproduction

Question 14

_____ is a sexual reproduction of animals. It is a conjugation of two gametes such as the sperm cell and egg cells.

Answer 14

Mating

Question 15

________ is a plant sexual reproduction where the pollen fertilizes the ovum

Answer 15

Pollination

Question 16

________ is a process of fertilization within the body of an animal or plant having both male and female reproductive organs.

Answer 16

Hermaphroditism

Question 17

Anything that is part of the internal or external environments and causes some sort of reaction by the organism is called a stimulus.

Answer 17

Responds to Stimuli

Question 18

Living things get their energy from food.
Most plants and some unicellular organisms use light energy from the Sun to make their own food and fuel their activities.

Answer 18

Requires Energy

Question 19

_________ biochemical reactions by which all organisms acquire & use energy. The vital processes in the living cells such as synthesis and decomposition of biomolecules.

Answer 19

Metabolism

Question 20

two types of Metabolism

Answer 20

Anabolism and catabolism

Question 21

It is the building up phase of metabolism. A synthesis process of which a complex compound form from a simpler Form.

Answer 21

Anabolism

Question 22

The process of breaking down a complex substance into simpler forms as energy production.

Answer 22

Catabolism

Question 23

Regulation of an organism’s internal conditions to maintain life is called homeostasis.

Answer 23

Maintains Homeostasis

Question 24

The ability of an organism to maintain its internal environment despite conditions in the external environment.

Answer 24

Homeostasis

Question 25

An ________ is any inherited characteristic that results from changes to a species over time.

Answer 25

adaptation