Procesos de la Vida

What life process is defined as all the activities by which an organism obtains food from the environment and breaks it down in a form that can be absorbed and used by its cells?

• Transport

• Nutrition

• Synthesis

• Excretion

What is the process by which simple molecules chemically combine to form more complex molecules?

• Growth

• Regulation

• Synthesis

• Reproduction

What life process is responsible for maintaining internal stability (homeostasis) in a constantly changing environment?

• Excretion

• Nutrition

• Regulation

• Cellular Respiration

What life process involves an increase in the size of an organism resulting from synthesis?

• Transport

• Growth

• Excretion

• Reproduction

Which of the following examples corresponds to the process of excretion?

• Heterotrophs have food from outside and autotroph produces their own food.

• Blood

• Amino acids combine to produce proteins that we need to grow.

• Cell waste: carbon dioxide, which we exhale, water vapor that we sweat, and renal production, which is urine.

What process does an organism use to eliminate toxic substances or waste from its system?

• Nutrition

• Transport

• Excretion

• Synthesis

What type of reproduction allows for genetic variability in offspring?

• Asexual reproduction

• Sexual reproduction

• Binary fission

• Budding