PORTAGE LEARNING BIOD 101 MODULE 2 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST
UPDATE 2024/2025
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 evolutionary adaptation?
Smaller, genetic changes that allow for better survival of an organism.
Evolutionary adaptation should not be confused with...?
Species evolution
What is an example of evolutionary adaptation?
Color camouflage
What is another name for evolutionary adaptation?
Generational evolution
What is regulation?
The ability for a living organism to maintain optimal living conditions
Living organisms are sensitive to...?
Temperature, environmental stress, pH requirements
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 adaption?
A change or process that allows an organism to become better suited for their
environment
adaptions can be ____ or ____
Physical, behavioral
What is a stimulus?
anything that causes an organism to respond
What is an example of a physical adaption?
A crab's hard shell
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST
UPDATE 2024/2025
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 evolutionary adaptation?
Smaller, genetic changes that allow for better survival of an organism.
Evolutionary adaptation should not be confused with...?
Species evolution
What is an example of evolutionary adaptation?
Color camouflage
What is another name for evolutionary adaptation?
Generational evolution
What is regulation?
The ability for a living organism to maintain optimal living conditions
Living organisms are sensitive to...?
Temperature, environmental stress, pH requirements
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 adaption?
A change or process that allows an organism to become better suited for their
environment
adaptions can be ____ or ____
Physical, behavioral
What is a stimulus?
anything that causes an organism to respond
What is an example of a physical adaption?
A crab's hard shell
