SBI3U-Classification of Life Question
and answers already passed 2025
Movement - correct answer ability to change the location of some or all of its
parts
Sensitivity - correct answer ability to respond to stimuli
Development - correct answer orderly, progressive change in form
(specialization)
Complexity - correct answer contains a large number of organized molecules
and materials
Death - correct answer ending of all processes
Cells - correct answer the basic components of all living things
Homeostasis - correct answer maintenance of a balanced internal system
Taxa - correct answer any group or rank in a biological classification into
which related organisms are classified
Binomial nomenclature - correct answer system of classification using two
names to describe an organism
Phylogeny - correct answer the evolutionary history of a species
, Phylogenic tree - correct answer a diagram showing the evolutionary
relationships or common ancestry of groups of species or populations
Cladogram - correct answer a diagram showing the evolutionary relationships
or common ancestry of groups of species or populations
Clade - correct answer a taxonomic group that includes a single ancestor
species and all of its descendants
Dichotomous key - correct answer a series of branching, two-part statements
used to identify organisms
Heterotroph - correct answer an organism that obtains energy-rich nutrients
by consuming living or dead organisms
Chemoautotrophic - correct answer an organism that uses inorganic energy
sources
Autotrophic - correct answer an organism that uses sources of energy to
produce nutrients from water, gases, and/or minerals
Photoautotrophic - correct answer an organism capable of synthesizing their
own food from inorganic substances using light as an energy source
Prokaryote - correct answer a single-celled organism that does not contain
membrane-bound organelles
and answers already passed 2025
Movement - correct answer ability to change the location of some or all of its
parts
Sensitivity - correct answer ability to respond to stimuli
Development - correct answer orderly, progressive change in form
(specialization)
Complexity - correct answer contains a large number of organized molecules
and materials
Death - correct answer ending of all processes
Cells - correct answer the basic components of all living things
Homeostasis - correct answer maintenance of a balanced internal system
Taxa - correct answer any group or rank in a biological classification into
which related organisms are classified
Binomial nomenclature - correct answer system of classification using two
names to describe an organism
Phylogeny - correct answer the evolutionary history of a species
, Phylogenic tree - correct answer a diagram showing the evolutionary
relationships or common ancestry of groups of species or populations
Cladogram - correct answer a diagram showing the evolutionary relationships
or common ancestry of groups of species or populations
Clade - correct answer a taxonomic group that includes a single ancestor
species and all of its descendants
Dichotomous key - correct answer a series of branching, two-part statements
used to identify organisms
Heterotroph - correct answer an organism that obtains energy-rich nutrients
by consuming living or dead organisms
Chemoautotrophic - correct answer an organism that uses inorganic energy
sources
Autotrophic - correct answer an organism that uses sources of energy to
produce nutrients from water, gases, and/or minerals
Photoautotrophic - correct answer an organism capable of synthesizing their
own food from inorganic substances using light as an energy source
Prokaryote - correct answer a single-celled organism that does not contain
membrane-bound organelles
