COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED INSIGHTS
◉ organisms give rise to offspring of the same time.
Answer: reproduction
◉ parent's genetic material is passed on to the offspring.
Answer: continuity of life
◉ offspring may be genetically different from their parents.
Answer: diversity of life
◉ mutations and variable offspring allow a species to _____.
Answer: evolve
◉ process where organisms with certain adaptations survive and
reproduce more successfully than others.
Answer: natural selection
◉ three major groups (DOMAINS) scientists categorize organisms
into.
Answer: Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya
,◉ 4 subdivisions of Eukarya.
Answer: Fungi, Plantae, Animalia, Protista
◉ membrane enclose sac containing the cell's genetic material.
Answer: nucleus
◉ cell type that lacks a nucleus.
Answer: prokaryotic
◉ cell type that has a nucleus.
Answer: eukaryotic
◉ unicellular organisms.
Answer: bacteria, archaea, protist in Eukarya
◉ multicellular organisms.
Answer: fungi, plantae, animalia (all Eukarya)
◉ capture sunlight and store it in sugar and fats (self-feeders).
Answer: autotrophs
, ◉ acquire energy through ingesting molecules in the bodies of other
organisms (eat others).
Answer: heterotrophs
◉ fundamental structural units of matter.
Answer: atoms
◉ positively charged.
Answer: protons
◉ uncharged.
Answer: neutrons
◉ negatively charged.
Answer: electrons
◉ a substance that cannot be broken down by ordinary chemical
reactions.
Answer: element
◉ variant atomic forms of an element.
Answer: isotopes