Characteristics of Living Things
This characteristic of life helps organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction (or DNA)?
This biomolecule is responsible for giving us short term energy
What are carbohydrates?
This is needed by organisms for sleeping, thinking, eating, and moving.
What is energy?
What is another name for Homeostasis?
Balance / Maintain Internal Condition
What does an enzyme do to a chemical reaction?
What is speeds it up?
When a tadpole becomes a frog, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is Development or growth?
This is the monomer that makes up nucleic acids
What are nucleotides?
This is the process by which one or more organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction?
What is a stimulus?
An enzyme is a natural type of __________________
What is a catalyst?
This characteristic of life is seen when an organism has an involuntary reflex.
What is response to stimuli?
This is the biomolecule that has the most functions, having 10,000 jobs in humans alone
What are proteins?
This is how unicellular organisms reproduce.
What is asexual reproduction?
(Splitting and making a copy of themselves.)
Your body regulates its temperature by doing this.
What is shivering, sweating, or changing blood flow?
Enzymes are a type of this biomolecule
What are proteins?
This characteristic of life is demonstrated when your brain reports that you are hungry when your blood-sugar gets low.
What is a Homeostasis?
How could you describe the structure of DNA?
What is double helix or twisted ladder?
This describes all of the chemical reactions that occur within a living thing.
What is metabolism?
When Homeostasis is not maintained, this can happen to the organism.
What is gets sick or dies?
Enzymes lower the ______________ required for a reaction to occur
What is energy?
When a species changes to be better at a task over time, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is adaptation or evolution?
What are the two monomers that make up lipids?
What are fatty acids and glycerol?
This mode of reproduction involves the fusion of gametes
What is sexual reproduction?
Many animals migrate as a response to this stimulus.
What is a change in weather/seasons?
This is an example of an enzyme in action
What is yeast? Other acceptable answers though