Module #1 Review Questions Flashcards
All life forms contain deoxyribonucleic acid which is called what?
DNA
All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from their surroundings and convert it into what?
Energy that sustain them
All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and do what?
Respond to their changes
All life forms have the ability to?
Reproduce
DNA provides the information necessary to take a bunch of lifeless chemicals and turn them into what?
An ordered, living system
What can be split into two categories of anabolism and catabolism?
Metabolism
Metabolism can be split into two categories: which category involves using energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures?
Anabolism
Metabolism can be split into two categories: which one is the breaking down of chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks?
Catabolism
The vast majority of energy that sustains life comes from what?
The sun
Green plants use that energy to make food for themselves via a process called what?
Photosynthesis
How do consumers get energy from producers?
By eating them
What are consumers which eat only plants called?
Herbivores
What are consumers which eat only non-plants called?
Carnivores
What are consumers which eat plants and non-plants called?
Omnivores
The energy of dead producers and consumers is recycled back into creation by what?
Decomposers
Producers are often called what, which is the Greek roots of which literally me “self-feeder.”?
Autotrophs
Consumers and decomposers are often called what?
Heterotrophs
Heterotroph literally means what?
Other feeders
Living organisms are equipped with structures called what, which receive information about their surroundings?
Receptors
Receptors are necessary for a living organism’s survival because God’s creation is always what?
Changing