BIOD 101 Module 2 Portage Learning With Complete Solutions

BIOD 101 Module 2 Portage Learning With Complete Solutions What is homeostasis? - Maintaining set points of living conditions What is an example of regulation? - Shivering to regulate body heat What is energy processing? - How an organism utilizes biochemical reactions to produce energy What is the sum of an organism's biochemical reactions referred to? - Metabolism What is ATP? - Biological fuel or energy What type of metabolism do many prokaryotes use? - Anaerobic What is photosynthesis? - A plant using light to trap energy Many prokaryotes metabolize ____? - Organic substances What type of metabolism do animals use? - Aerobic Animals ____ and use ____ as part of aerobic respiration to produce ATP - ingest food, biomacromolecules What is growth and development? - Change over a life cycle. A living thing grows, matures, ages, and dies. Living things respond to their environment through...? - adaption What is an organism? - An individual living creature What are the 7 common characteristics of organisms? - order, evolutionary adaptation, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, response to environment, reproduction What is the characteristic "order"? - Life is structured into a developmental hierarchy The ____ itself is highly ordered as it contains organelles, a dedicated cytoplasmic space, conducts metabolic processes, and undergoes microscale adaptions. - cell What is a taxon? - A unit/level of classification What are the 8 taxonomic levels? - Domain, Kingdom, Phylus, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species How many recognized domains are there? - 3 What is evolutionary adaptation? - Smaller, genetic changes that allow for better survival of an organism. Evolutionary adaptation should not be confused with...? - Species evolution