Charcteristics Of Living Things

Question 1

What is biology

Answer 1

Biology is teh study of living things

Question 2

How many characteristics are there in living things

Answer 2

5

Question 3

Name the 5 characteristics

Answer 3

Nutrition , excretion, responsiveness, organisation,reproduction

Question 4

A phrase to remember the characteristics of living things

Answer 4

Never eat rats or rabbits

Question 5

What is nutrition

Answer 5

Nutrition is the way any organism obtains food

Question 6

Food is needed by organism to carry out cell m…………

Answer 6

Metabolism

Question 7

Name the two modes of nutrition

Answer 7

Autotrophic and heterotrophic

Question 8

What is autotrophic

Answer 8

Organism make their own food

Question 9

Name the 2 types of autotroph

Answer 9

Photosynthetic and chemosynthetic

Question 10

What is photosynthetic

Answer 10

Organism make its own food using light energy

Question 11

What is chemosynthetic

Answer 11

Organism make its own food from chemical reactions.

Question 12

What is heterotrophic

Answer 12

Take in food or consumers

Question 13

What is herbivore

Answer 13

An organism that consumes vegetation only

Question 14

What is carnivore

Answer 14

An organism that consumes meat only

Question 15

What is omnivore

Answer 15

An organism that consumes vegetation and meat

Question 16

What is predator

Answer 16

An organism that feeds directly off a living host causing it harm.
Example : tapeworm

Question 17

What is saphtrophyte

Answer 17

An organism that feed off dead matter
Example: decomposer

Question 18

What is excretion

Answer 18

The removal of waste made by the metabolism of the cell

Question 19

What is the metabolism

Answer 19

Is the sum of chemical reactions occurring in the cell

Question 20

What is Egestion

Answer 20

Is the removal of waste from food that can’t be digested or removed

Question 21

What is responsiveness

Answer 21

Is the ability of an organism to change correctly to its environment

Question 22

Name the 2 types of receptors

Answer 22

Exoreceptors ( outside)
Endoreceptors ( inside)

Question 23

What is stimulus

Answer 23

The information that is picked up to cause a reaction

Question 24

What is unicellular

Answer 24

An organism that only consists of 1 cell

Question 25

What is multicellular

Answer 25

Organism that have many different cells all working together

Question 26

What is tissue

Answer 26

A tissue is group of similar cells all working together for a common function. Example: muscle

Question 27

What is organ

Answer 27

An organ is when many tissues combine to carry out a common function. Example : heart

Question 28

What is a system

Answer 28

A system is when many organs combine to carry out a common function. Example : digestive system

Question 29

What is reproduction

Answer 29

Is the ability to produce new offspring from an existing parents

Question 30

Name the 2 types of reproduction

Answer 30

Asexual and sexual

Question 31

What is asexual reproduction

Answer 31

New offspring comes from a single parent Example: bacteria / yeast

Question 32

What is sexual reproduction

Answer 32

Is when a male and a female gamete fuse to produce new offspring Example: human

Question 33

What is tissue culturing

Answer 33

It is the growth of cells / tissue on a false medium ( agar). Example : skin tissue/ Graf

Question 34

To culture a tissue you need to create the c……………………..to allow for cell g………

Answer 34

Correct conditions, growth

Question 35

What are the requirements for the tissue culturing

Answer 35

Food source, temperature , pH/ water , oxygen