Characteristics of Life Flashcards
(24 cards)
TRUE OR FALSE?
Living organisms are made up of cells
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE?
Living organisms are only mutli-cellular.
FALSE. They can either be unicellular or multicellular.
Organisms that are made up of one cell.
Unicellular organisms
Organisms that are made up of more than one cell.
Multi-cellular organisms
TRUE OR FALSE?
Living organisms reproduce (reproduction)
TRUE
A type of reproduction that requires one parent.
Asexual
A type of reproduction that requires two parents.
Sexual
Living organisms are based on a universal genetic code, which is?
DNA
TRUE OR FALSE?
DNA is the genetic code found in every cell.
TRUE
It is inherited from parents and controls your traits.
DNA
TRUE OR FALSE?
Living organisms grow and develop.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE?
Most living things grow and develop during the least part of their life.
FALSE. It should be all living things.
TRUE OR FALSE?
Living organisms obtain and use materials and energy.
TRUE
It is the chemical reactions in the body’s cells that change food into energy.
Metabolism
TRUE OR FALSE?
Living organisms respond to their environment.
TRUE
Organisms detect and respond to _____ from their environment.
Stimuli (or signals)
Living Organisms need a constant supply of ____ and ____.
materials and energy
signal comes from inside the organism
Internal Stimuli
signal comes from outside the organism
External Stimuli
Living organisms maintain a _________ environment
stable internal
TRUE OR FALSE?
Despite changing conditions around them, an organism must keep its internal conditions stable/balanced.
TRUE
It is the process of keeping the internal environment stable/balanced/constant.
Homeostasis
over hundreds, thousands, and millions of years, organisms have the potential to change
Evolution
TRUE OR FALSE?
Taken as a group, living organisms change over time
TRUE
