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Fundamental Characteristics of Living Organisms Quiz

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What distinguishes matter with biological processes from matter without?

Composition of biochemical molecules

Presence in air, water, and soil

Capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction (correct)

Ability to replicate in host cells

What makes defining viruses as living organisms difficult?

They exhibit self-organizing systems

They are composed of biochemical molecules

They exist in air, water, and soil

They replicate only in host cells (correct)

When did life originate?

At least 2 billion years ago

At least 3.5 billion years ago (correct)

At least 1 billion years ago

At least 4 billion years ago

Who proposed the theory that living things have souls and embody both form and matter?

Aristotle Signup and view all the answers

What initiated modern classification of living things?

Carl Linnaeus's system of binomial nomenclature in the 1740s Signup and view all the answers

What is the result of molecular diffusion?

Gradual mixing of material leading to uniform distribution of molecules Signup and view all the answers

What governs the process of molecular diffusion when concentrations are equal?

Self-diffusion originating from the random motion of the molecules Signup and view all the answers

What is the result of molecular diffusion in a phase with uniform temperature and absent external net forces?

Complete mixing of the diffusion process Signup and view all the answers

What is the function of temperature in the rate of molecular diffusion?

It affects the rate of movement of particles Signup and view all the answers

How is molecular diffusion typically described mathematically?

Using Fick's laws of diffusion Signup and view all the answers