Portage Learning BIOD 101 Module 2 Practice Questions and Answers | 100% Pass

Portage Learning BIOD 101 Module 2 Practice Questions and Answers | 100% Pass What is an organism? - Answer️️ -An individual living creature What are the 7 common characteristics of organisms? - Answer️️ -order, evolutionary adaptation, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, response to environment, reproduction What is the characteristic "order"? - Answer️️ -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. - Answer️️ -cell What is evolutionary adaptation? - Answer️️ -Smaller, genetic changes that allow for better survival of an organism. Evolutionary adaptation should not be confused with...? - Answer️️ -Species evolution What is an example of evolutionary adaptation? - Answer️️ -Color camouflage What is another name for evolutionary adaptation? - Answer️️ -Generational evolution What is regulation? - Answer️️ -The ability for a living organism to maintain optimal living conditions Page 2 of 15 Living organisms are sensitive to...? - Answer️️ -Temperature, environmental stress, pH requirements What is homeostasis? - Answer️️ -Maintaining set points of living conditions What is an example of regulation? - Answer️️ -Shivering to regulate body heat What is energy processing? - Answer️️ -How an organism utilizes biochemical reactions to produce energy What is the sum of an organism's biochemical reactions referred to? - Answer️️ - Metabolism What is ATP? - Answer️️ -Biological fuel or energy What type of metabolism do many prokaryotes use? - Answer️️ -Anaerobic What is photosynthesis? - Answer️️ -A plant using light to trap energy Many prokaryotes metabolize ____? - Answer️️ -Organic substances What type of metabolism do animals use? - Answer️️ -Aerobic Animals ____ and use ____ as part of aerobic respiration to produce ATP - Answer️️ - ingest food, biomacromolecules What is growth and development? - Answer️️ -Change over a life cycle. A living thing grows, matures, ages, and dies. Living things respond to their environment through...? - Answer️️ -adaption What is adaption? - Answer️️ -A change or process that allows an organism to become better suited for their environment adaptions can be ____ or ____ - Answer️️ -Physical, behavioral Page 3 of 15 What is a stimulus? - Answer️️ -anything that causes an organism to respond What is an example of a physical adaption? - Answer️️ -A crab's hard shell What is an example of a behavioral adaption? - Answer️️ -A squirrel hibernating What is reproduction? - Answer️️ -A living thing's way of producing new and thriving generations to replace previous ones Reproduction can occur ____ or ____ - Answer️️ -Sexually or asexually What does sexual reproduction involve? - Answer️️ -Fusion of two gametes that unite and grow into new offspring What does asexual reproduction produce? - Answer️️ -New offspring from a single organism What are examples of asexual reproduction? - Answer️️ -Spore form