Characteristics Of Living Things

Question 1

Characteristic of life (1 out of 5)

Answer 1

Complexity and organization (requires energy to actively maintain)

Question 2

Characteristic of life (2 out of 5)

Answer 2

Responded to environment (Homeostasis)

Question 3

Characteristic of life (3 out of 5)

Answer 3

Growth and metabolism

Question 4

Characteristic of life (4 out of 5)

Answer 4

Reproduction/Heredity

Question 5

Characteristic of life (5 out of 5)

Answer 5

Evolve

Question 6

What two are the most basic level of cells?

Answer 6

Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic

Question 7

What is the major difference between Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells?

Answer 7

1000 times larger than prokaryotes

Question 8

What does cell volume represent?

Answer 8

Demand

Question 9

What does cell surface area represent?

Answer 9

Supply

Question 10

What does remaining small allow?

Answer 10

Workable surface area to volume ratio

Question 11

What are the two domains prokaryotes are divided to?

Answer 11

Bacteria (Eubacteria) and Archaea (Extremophiles)

Question 12

What are prokaryotes dominant of?

Answer 12

Biomass and Diversity

Question 13

What are the differences between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes?

Answer 13

No Nucleus (DNA in nucleoid), No internal membrane system, and has a cell wall made up of peptidoglycans

Question 14

What do both Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells have?

Answer 14

An outer plasma membrane systems (phospholipid Bilayer), Cytoplasm, and Ribosomoes

Question 15

Cytoplasm

Answer 15

Semi-solid substance that contains all of the cell’s internal components

Question 16

Ribosomes

Answer 16

The universal organelle responsible for synthesizing proteins

Question 17

What is a distinctive feature of eukaryotes l?

Answer 17

Internal compartmentalization

Question 18

What are internal compartments called?

Answer 18

Organelles

Question 19

What only organelle is NOT membrane bound?

Answer 19

Ribosomes