What Is Life

Question 1

Stimulus

Answer 1

Something that causes something else to happen, develope, or become more active

Question 2

Response

Answer 2

Something that is done as a reaction to something else

Question 3

Asexual reproduction

Answer 3

Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, and inherit the genes of that parent only; it is reproduction which almost never involves ploidy or reduction.

Question 4

Sexual reproduction

Answer 4

The production of new living organisms by combining genetic information from two individuals of different types (sexes). In most higher organisms, one sex (male) produces a small motile gamete that travels to fuse with a larger stationary gamete produced by the other (female).

Question 5

Autotroph

Answer 5

an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.

Question 6

Heterotroph

Answer 6

an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

Question 7

Homeostasis

Answer 7

the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.