Lecture Number One

Question 1

Order

Answer 1

All living thing consist of one or more cells with highly ordered structures
Internal order within the species

Question 2

Grow and develop

Answer 2

Increase of size and mass

Number of cells increase - duplication

Question 3

Energy utilization

Answer 3

To maintain order, living things need energy
Process known as metabolism
Plants are the most important organism with transformaing energy

Question 4

Regulation

Answer 4

Homeostasis
Self correcting internal envrionment
Keeps the body fucntioning
Must be maintained to live

Question 5

Stimulis

Answer 5

Fluctuations above a set point (temp)

Stimulus are detected and trigger the body to respond

Question 6

Reprodcution

Answer 6

Creating new offspring

Question 7

Asexual reproduction

Answer 7

Can reproduce without another individual

Question 8

Sexual reproduction

Answer 8

Creates new offspring that have genetic material from two different membersw

Question 9

Evolution

Answer 9

Need to adapt to changes in te environment

Through evolution processes

Question 10

Two mechanisms of evoltionary chnage

Answer 10

Vertical descent

Horizontal gene transfer

Question 11

Vertical descent

Answer 11

Changes in lineage
New species evolve by mutations
Natural selection

Question 12

Horizontal gene transfer

Answer 12

Exchnage between different species