BIO 214 UWEC EXAM 1 EXAMINATION
STUDY SHEET 2026 VERIFIED QUESTION–
ANSWER COMPILATION
◉ Living things must exchange materials with their ____?
Answer: Environment
◉ What does metabolism due?
Answer: Breaks down food to obtain energy
◉ Living things must maintain ___?
Answer: Homeostasis
◉ Living things exhibit ____?
Answer: Movement
◉ a body can be moved from one place to another and materials can
moved from one place to another within the body... What does this
apply to?
Answer: Living things exhibit movement
,◉ Living things RESPOND to ____?
Answer: environmental stimuli
◉ Asexual reproduction involves a ____ parent that splits into ____
daughter offspring.
Answer: single
identical
◉ Asexual reproduction involves the union of ____ and ____ from
separate parent organisms to produce offspring with traits that ____
from either parent
Answer: sperm
egg
differ
◉ Living things grow and develop. what are the important
characteristics of this development?
Answer: increase in mass, size, complexity
as life progresses.
,◉ Genes are pieces of ___ on a ____ that control, physical, _____, and
behavioral traits.
Answer: DNA
chromosome
physiological
◉ T/F... Do living things pass on hereditary traits?
Answer: True
◉ What controls traits and behaviors that improve chances of
survival?
Answer: Genes
◉ Genes help us understand how _______?
Answer: We adapt to the environment
◉ _____ and/or behaviors are selected for or against depending upon
the impact that they have on the ____ of the organism.
Answer: Traits
Survival
, ◉ Changes in the gene pool of a population from one generation to
another over long periods of time is know as _____?
Answer: Evolution
◉ Selective traits, behaviors, and evolution are examples of how
____?
Answer: Living things change over time
◉ What are the structural and functional units of life?
Answer: Cells
(Chemical level)
◉ structures, regions, or molecules WITHIN a cell are known as ?
Answer: organelles
◉ ____ is collection of similar cells that work together to perform a
particular function.
Answer: Tissue
◉ Two or more tissues TYPES that assume recognizable shape and
perform a particular function is what?
Answer: Organ
STUDY SHEET 2026 VERIFIED QUESTION–
ANSWER COMPILATION
◉ Living things must exchange materials with their ____?
Answer: Environment
◉ What does metabolism due?
Answer: Breaks down food to obtain energy
◉ Living things must maintain ___?
Answer: Homeostasis
◉ Living things exhibit ____?
Answer: Movement
◉ a body can be moved from one place to another and materials can
moved from one place to another within the body... What does this
apply to?
Answer: Living things exhibit movement
,◉ Living things RESPOND to ____?
Answer: environmental stimuli
◉ Asexual reproduction involves a ____ parent that splits into ____
daughter offspring.
Answer: single
identical
◉ Asexual reproduction involves the union of ____ and ____ from
separate parent organisms to produce offspring with traits that ____
from either parent
Answer: sperm
egg
differ
◉ Living things grow and develop. what are the important
characteristics of this development?
Answer: increase in mass, size, complexity
as life progresses.
,◉ Genes are pieces of ___ on a ____ that control, physical, _____, and
behavioral traits.
Answer: DNA
chromosome
physiological
◉ T/F... Do living things pass on hereditary traits?
Answer: True
◉ What controls traits and behaviors that improve chances of
survival?
Answer: Genes
◉ Genes help us understand how _______?
Answer: We adapt to the environment
◉ _____ and/or behaviors are selected for or against depending upon
the impact that they have on the ____ of the organism.
Answer: Traits
Survival
, ◉ Changes in the gene pool of a population from one generation to
another over long periods of time is know as _____?
Answer: Evolution
◉ Selective traits, behaviors, and evolution are examples of how
____?
Answer: Living things change over time
◉ What are the structural and functional units of life?
Answer: Cells
(Chemical level)
◉ structures, regions, or molecules WITHIN a cell are known as ?
Answer: organelles
◉ ____ is collection of similar cells that work together to perform a
particular function.
Answer: Tissue
◉ Two or more tissues TYPES that assume recognizable shape and
perform a particular function is what?
Answer: Organ
