Prentice Hall Brief Review: The Living Environment 2019
Prentice Hall Brief Review: The Living Environment 2019
John Bartsch, Mary P Colvard
ISBN: 9781418292164
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Section 1.1: The Characteristics of Life

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An amoeba and a human cell can be alike in ways like maintaining homeostasis which is the ability to maintain every condition in a balanced state and the ability to reproduce either sexually or asexually.
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Maintaining homeostasis and the ability to reproduce.
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The answer is 3. The relationship between homeostasis and the internal environment is that homeostasis is important for the maintenance of the stability of the internal environment despite the changes occurring in the external environment.
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The answer is 2. This is called the levels of organization first, from cells to tissues to organs to organ system then organism.
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Exercise 4
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A microscope can determine if a specimen is a living thing by means of identifying a certain part of the cell like the nucleus, the mitochondria, the ribosomes, the Golgi apparatus, and the cytoplasm.
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The answer is 4. The process of ingesting, digesting, absorbing and utilizing nutrients in food as well as utilizing energy for use in certain functions of the body relate to metabolism.
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The answer is 1. The level of organization is the like a hierarchy of the levels of a certain animals or even people, from cells to the organism itself.
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The answer is 2. The relationship between homeostasis and the internal environment is that homeostasis is important for the maintenance of stability of the internal environment despite the changes occurring in the external environment.
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Exercise 8
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Living things and nonliving things differ in that nonliving things, do not need homeostasis in order to survive and they also do not reproduce even if it is sexually or asexually
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The answer is 4. Every cell reproduce in order to replace those that are damaged. By this way, cells in the body grow in quantity by replicating making resulting to also an increase in size like height or width.
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The answer is 3. Living things are made of atoms of different elements but majority of the composition comprises of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.
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