Characteristics of Life: Order, Sensitivity, Reproduction, Growth
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What is the term for asexual reproduction involving only one parent, where offspring are identical to the parent?

  • Parthenogenesis
  • Regeneration
  • Budding
  • Binary Fission (correct)
  • Which characteristic of life involves cells responding to diverse stimuli?

  • Reproduction
  • Growth and Development
  • Homeostasis
  • Sensitivity/Response to Stimuli (correct)
  • What is the term for the process in which a piece of a parent organism is detached and can grow into a completely new individual?

  • Regeneration (correct)
  • Parthenogenesis
  • Budding
  • Binary Fission
  • Which characteristic of life involves organisms following specific genetic instructions to grow and develop?

    <p>Growth and Development</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for reproduction involving two parents' cells and the process of fertilization?

    <p>Sexual Reproduction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which characteristic of life involves highly organized, coordinated structures consisting of one or more cells?

    <p>Order</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which process involves the creation of an organism with an exact genetic copy of another?

    <p>Cloning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for changing the DNA in living organisms to create something new?

    <p>Genetic engineering</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which evidence of evolution provides the best proof of the history of life, showing how extinct species have led to today’s species?

    <p>Fossil record</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for structures that are found in an organism but appear to serve no function?

    <p>Vestigial structures</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the process of gradual change that takes place over many generations?

    <p>Evolution</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What concept states that similarities in the developmental pattern of organisms exist because of a common ancestor?

    <p>Comparative Embryology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which group of organisms cannot make their own food and must ingest other organisms?

    <p>Consumers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for both living and non-living parts of an ecosystem that determines an organism’s role in the ecosystem?

    <p>Niche</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of ecosystem is a land-based community of organisms?

    <p>Terrestrial ecosystem</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term is used for reproduction involving two parents' cells and the process of fertilization?

    <p>Genetics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the process called when DNA is cut out of one organism and put into another organism?

    <p>Gene splicing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of evidence of evolution involves body parts from different organisms that have the same structures but different functions?

    <p>Homologous structures</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for structures that are found in an organism but appear to serve no function?

    <p>Vestigial structures</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which process involves the creation of an organism with an exact genetic copy of another?

    <p>Cloning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In ecology, what do we call the study of the interactions between living organisms and their biotic and abiotic environments?

    <p>Ecology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the actual place an organism lives within an ecosystem?

    <p>Habitat</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do we call autotrophic organisms that make their own food?

    <p>Producers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of organism feeds on dead or decaying organisms within an ecosystem?

    <p>Scavengers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for a land-based community of organisms within an ecosystem?

    <p>Terrestrial ecosystem</p> Signup and view all the answers

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