1.3 Characteristics of Life

Which is NOT a characteristic that all living organisms share? 

• Ability to reproduce 
• Ability to grow 
• Ability to respond to their environment 
• Ability to dominate an ecosystem 

When you step out into the cold, your body shivers in order to keep its temperature at 98.6F. This is an example of ...

• All living things have a metabolism

• All living things have an internal structure of cells

• All living things respond to their environment

• All living things grow

All living things are made of ____________, which are the smallest units of life.

• Cells

• ATP

• Glucose

• Sugar

Light, smell, sound, and temperature are all examples of _______, items to which living things respond.

• Cells

• Stimuli

• Fungi

• Reactions

A caterpillar hibernates in a cocoon and emerges as a butterfly.

• All living things have adaptations
• All living things have a metabolism
• All living things respond to their environment
• All living things grow and develop

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Green plants produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis.

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow

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During ___________ conditions inside our body are kept stable (the same)

• homeopathic
• Homo sapian
• homeostasis
• homologous

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What does reproduce mean?

• They grow - get larger
• They are living things
• Organisms make other organisms

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Rocks are not living because

• they never move
• they aren't needed for humans
• they are not made of cells
• they don't break down

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Identical twins have 99.999% of the same genes.

• All living things contain DNA

• All living things require and use energy

• All living things are made of cells

• All living things maintain a stable internal balance