The Nature of Living Organisms

Question 1

What are all the characteristics of living organisms?

Answer 1

Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Homeostasis, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, Nutrition

Question 2

What is movement?

Answer 2

The ability to move from place to place, forward, backward. For plants it is to move toward light.

Question 3

What is respiration?

Answer 3

A chemical reaction that releases energy from food. There are two types

Question 4

What are the two types of respiration?

Answer 4

Aerobic and Anaerobic

Question 5

What is sensitivity?

Answer 5

The ability to sense and interact with your surroundings using the five senses

Question 6

What are the five senses?

Answer 6

To look, to touch, to taste, to hear, to smell

Question 7

What is homeostasis?

Answer 7

The ability to manage one’s internal temperature and environment

Question 8

What is growth?

Answer 8

The ability to create multiple cells and get bigger upwards and outwards

Question 9

What is reproduction?

Answer 9

The ability to produce offspring

Question 10

What is excretion?

Answer 10

The ability to dispose of waste

Question 11

What is nutrition?

Answer 11

The ability to intake food, essential for growth and respiration

Question 12

Name the organism(s) that contain a cell wall made of chitin

Answer 12

Fungi

Question 13

Name the organism(s) that contain genetic material

Answer 13

Virus and all prokaryotic organisms

Question 14

Name the organism(s) that contain a circular chromosome

Answer 14

Bacteria

Question 15

What is Amoeba an example of?

Answer 15

Protoctista

Question 16

How do fungi feed?

Answer 16

They feed by secreting enzymes onto their food - the enzymes breakdown (digest) the food, and the fungi then absorb the products of digestion

Question 17

What is the the fungal process called when fungi make food?

Answer 17

Saprotrophic Nutrition

Question 18

What does prokaryotic mean?

Answer 18

An organism whose cells don’t contain a nucleus

Question 19

Name all the organisms that are prokaryotic?

Answer 19

Viruses and Bacteria

Question 20

What does eukaryotic mean?

Answer 20

An organism whose cells do contain a nucleus

Question 21

Name the five kingdoms

Answer 21

Fungi, Bacteria, Protoctista, Animals and Plants

Question 22

Why are Viruses not included?

Answer 22

Because they are not considered to be living as are not made of cells, also they only have one characteristic of living organisms being reproduction.

Question 23

Name the eukaryotic organisms?

Answer 23

Animals, Plants and Fungi

Question 24

Give an example of a fungi

Answer 24

Mucor or Penicillium

Question 25

Give an example of a bacteria

Answer 25

E. Coli or Pneumococcus

Question 26

Give an example of a virus

Answer 26

Tobacco Mosaic or Influenza

Question 27

What is a pathogen?

Answer 27

Pathogens are microorganisms that cause disease

Question 28

What form is a pathogen?

Answer 28

Pathogens can be bacteria, viruses, fungi or protoctista

Question 29

What is the word equation for photosynthesis?

Answer 29

Carbon Dioxide + Water —> Glucose + Oxygen

Question 30

What is the word equation for respiration?

Answer 30

Glucose + Oxygen —> Carbon Dioxide + Water