Portage Learning BIOD 101 Module 2 questions
and answers 2026\2027 A+ Grade
What is an organism?
- correct answer An individual living creature
What are the 7 common characteristics of organisms?
- correct answer order, evolutionary adaptation, regulation, energy processing, growth and
development, response to environment, reproduction
What is the characteristic "order"?
- correct 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.
- correct answer cell
What is evolutionary adaptation?
- correct answer Smaller, genetic changes that allow for better survival of an organism.
Evolutionary adaptation should not be confused with...?
- correct answer Species evolution
What is an example of evolutionary adaptation?
- correct answer Color camouflage
What is another name for evolutionary adaptation?
- correct answer Generational evolution
,What is regulation?
- correct answer The ability for a living organism to maintain optimal living conditions
Living organisms are sensitive to...?
- correct answer Temperature, environmental stress, pH requirements
What is homeostasis?
- correct answer Maintaining set points of living conditions
What is an example of regulation?
- correct answer Shivering to regulate body heat
What is energy processing?
- correct answer How an organism utilizes biochemical reactions to produce energy
What is the sum of an organism's biochemical reactions referred to?
- correct answer Metabolism
What is ATP?
- correct answer Biological fuel or energy
What type of metabolism do many prokaryotes use?
- correct answer Anaerobic
What is photosynthesis?
- correct answer A plant using light to trap energy
Many prokaryotes metabolize ____?
- correct answer Organic substances
What type of metabolism do animals use?
- correct answer Aerobic
, Animals ____ and use ____ as part of aerobic respiration to produce ATP
- correct answer ingest food, biomacromolecules
What is growth and development?
- correct answer Change over a life cycle. A living thing grows, matures, ages, and dies.
Living things respond to their environment through...?
- correct answer adaption
What is adaption?
- correct answer A change or process that allows an organism to become better suited for their
environment
adaptions can be ____ or ____
- correct answer Physical, behavioral
What is a stimulus?
- correct answer anything that causes an organism to respond
What is an example of a physical adaption?
- correct answer A crab's hard shell
What is an example of a behavioral adaption?
- correct answer A squirrel hibernating
What is reproduction?
- correct answer A living thing's way of producing new and thriving generations to replace previous ones
Reproduction can occur ____ or ____
- correct answer Sexually or asexually
What does sexual reproduction involve?
- correct answer Fusion of two gametes that unite and grow into new offspring
and answers 2026\2027 A+ Grade
What is an organism?
- correct answer An individual living creature
What are the 7 common characteristics of organisms?
- correct answer order, evolutionary adaptation, regulation, energy processing, growth and
development, response to environment, reproduction
What is the characteristic "order"?
- correct 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.
- correct answer cell
What is evolutionary adaptation?
- correct answer Smaller, genetic changes that allow for better survival of an organism.
Evolutionary adaptation should not be confused with...?
- correct answer Species evolution
What is an example of evolutionary adaptation?
- correct answer Color camouflage
What is another name for evolutionary adaptation?
- correct answer Generational evolution
,What is regulation?
- correct answer The ability for a living organism to maintain optimal living conditions
Living organisms are sensitive to...?
- correct answer Temperature, environmental stress, pH requirements
What is homeostasis?
- correct answer Maintaining set points of living conditions
What is an example of regulation?
- correct answer Shivering to regulate body heat
What is energy processing?
- correct answer How an organism utilizes biochemical reactions to produce energy
What is the sum of an organism's biochemical reactions referred to?
- correct answer Metabolism
What is ATP?
- correct answer Biological fuel or energy
What type of metabolism do many prokaryotes use?
- correct answer Anaerobic
What is photosynthesis?
- correct answer A plant using light to trap energy
Many prokaryotes metabolize ____?
- correct answer Organic substances
What type of metabolism do animals use?
- correct answer Aerobic
, Animals ____ and use ____ as part of aerobic respiration to produce ATP
- correct answer ingest food, biomacromolecules
What is growth and development?
- correct answer Change over a life cycle. A living thing grows, matures, ages, and dies.
Living things respond to their environment through...?
- correct answer adaption
What is adaption?
- correct answer A change or process that allows an organism to become better suited for their
environment
adaptions can be ____ or ____
- correct answer Physical, behavioral
What is a stimulus?
- correct answer anything that causes an organism to respond
What is an example of a physical adaption?
- correct answer A crab's hard shell
What is an example of a behavioral adaption?
- correct answer A squirrel hibernating
What is reproduction?
- correct answer A living thing's way of producing new and thriving generations to replace previous ones
Reproduction can occur ____ or ____
- correct answer Sexually or asexually
What does sexual reproduction involve?
- correct answer Fusion of two gametes that unite and grow into new offspring
