BIOD 101 MODULE 3 EXAM PORTAGE
LEARNING COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026
◉ What are the 7 common characteristics of organisms? Answer:
order, evolutionary adaptation, regulation, energy processing,
growth and development, response to environment, reproduction
◉ What is the characteristic "order"? Answer: 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. Answer: cell
◉ What is evolutionary adaptation? Answer: Smaller, genetic
changes that allow for better survival of an organism.
◉ Evolutionary adaptation should not be confused with...? Answer:
Species evolution
◉ What is an example of evolutionary adaptation? Answer: Color
camouflage
,◉ What is another name for evolutionary adaptation? Answer:
Generational evolution
◉ What is regulation? Answer: The ability for a living organism to
maintain optimal living conditions
◉ Living organisms are sensitive to...? Answer: Temperature,
environmental stress, pH requirements
◉ What is homeostasis? Answer: Maintaining set points of living
conditions
◉ What is an example of regulation? Answer: Shivering to regulate
body heat
◉ What is energy processing? Answer: How an organism utilizes
biochemical reactions to produce energy
◉ What is the sum of an organism's biochemical reactions referred
to? Answer: Metabolism
◉ What is ATP? Answer: Biological fuel or energy
, ◉ What type of metabolism do many prokaryotes use? Answer:
Anaerobic
◉ What is photosynthesis? Answer: A plant using light to trap
energy
◉ Many prokaryotes metabolize ____? Answer: Organic substances
◉ What type of metabolism do animals use? Answer: Aerobic
◉ Animals ____ and use ____ as part of aerobic respiration to produce
ATP Answer: ingest food, biomacromolecules
◉ What is growth and development? Answer: Change over a life
cycle. A living thing grows, matures, ages, and dies.
◉ Living things respond to their environment through...? Answer:
adaption
◉ What is adaption? Answer: A change or process that allows an
organism to become better suited for their environment
◉ adaptions can be ____ or ____ Answer: Physical, behavioral
LEARNING COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026
◉ What are the 7 common characteristics of organisms? Answer:
order, evolutionary adaptation, regulation, energy processing,
growth and development, response to environment, reproduction
◉ What is the characteristic "order"? Answer: 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. Answer: cell
◉ What is evolutionary adaptation? Answer: Smaller, genetic
changes that allow for better survival of an organism.
◉ Evolutionary adaptation should not be confused with...? Answer:
Species evolution
◉ What is an example of evolutionary adaptation? Answer: Color
camouflage
,◉ What is another name for evolutionary adaptation? Answer:
Generational evolution
◉ What is regulation? Answer: The ability for a living organism to
maintain optimal living conditions
◉ Living organisms are sensitive to...? Answer: Temperature,
environmental stress, pH requirements
◉ What is homeostasis? Answer: Maintaining set points of living
conditions
◉ What is an example of regulation? Answer: Shivering to regulate
body heat
◉ What is energy processing? Answer: How an organism utilizes
biochemical reactions to produce energy
◉ What is the sum of an organism's biochemical reactions referred
to? Answer: Metabolism
◉ What is ATP? Answer: Biological fuel or energy
, ◉ What type of metabolism do many prokaryotes use? Answer:
Anaerobic
◉ What is photosynthesis? Answer: A plant using light to trap
energy
◉ Many prokaryotes metabolize ____? Answer: Organic substances
◉ What type of metabolism do animals use? Answer: Aerobic
◉ Animals ____ and use ____ as part of aerobic respiration to produce
ATP Answer: ingest food, biomacromolecules
◉ What is growth and development? Answer: Change over a life
cycle. A living thing grows, matures, ages, and dies.
◉ Living things respond to their environment through...? Answer:
adaption
◉ What is adaption? Answer: A change or process that allows an
organism to become better suited for their environment
◉ adaptions can be ____ or ____ Answer: Physical, behavioral
