PORTAGE LEARNING BIOD 101 MODULE 2 EXAM LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR ALL 250 QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS

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PORTAGE LEARNING BIOD 101 MODULE 2 EXAM
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR ALL 250 QUESTIONS
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS

Question: What is an organism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔An individual living creature




Question: What are the 7 common characteristics of organisms? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔order,
evolutionary adaptation, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, response to
environment, reproduction




Question: What is the characteristic "order"? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Life is structured into a
developmental hierarchy




Question: The ____ itself is highly ordered as it contains organelles, a dedicated cytoplasmic
space, conducts metabolic processes, and undergoes microscale adaptions. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔cell




Question: What is evolutionary adaptation? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Smaller, genetic changes
that allow for better survival of an organism.

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Question: Evolutionary adaptation should not be confused with...? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Species evolution




Question: What is an example of evolutionary adaptation? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Color
camouflage




Question: What is another name for evolutionary adaptation? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Generational evolution




Question: What is regulation? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The ability for a living organism to
maintain optimal living conditions




Question: Living organisms are sensitive to...? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Temperature,
environmental stress, pH requirements




Question: What is homeostasis? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Maintaining set points of living
conditions




Question: What is an example of regulation? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Shivering to regulate body
heat

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Question: What is energy processing? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔How an organism utilizes
biochemical reactions to produce energy




Question: What is the sum of an organism's biochemical reactions referred to? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Metabolism




Question: What is ATP? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Biological fuel or energy




Question: What type of metabolism do many prokaryotes use? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Anaerobic




Question: What is photosynthesis? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A plant using light to trap energy




Question: Many prokaryotes metabolize ____? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Organic substances




Question: What type of metabolism do animals use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Aerobic




Question: Animals ____ and use ____ as part of aerobic respiration to produce ATP - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔ingest food, biomacromolecules

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Question: What is growth and development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Change over a life cycle. A
living thing grows, matures, ages, and dies.




Question: Living things respond to their environment through...? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔adaption




Question: What is adaption? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A change or process that allows an
organism to become better suited for their environment




Question: adaptions can be ____ or ____ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Physical, behavioral




Question: What is a stimulus? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔anything that causes an organism to
respond




Question: What is an example of a physical adaption? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A crab's hard
shell




Question: What is an example of a behavioral adaption? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A squirrel
hibernating