Characteristics of Life: Order, Sensitivity, Reproduction, Growth
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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?

Binary Fission

Which characteristic of life involves cells responding to diverse stimuli?

Sensitivity/Response to Stimuli

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

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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