What are the three properties of living things that the chapter identifies?

What will be an ideal response?


Life is a process by which an organism extracts energy from the surroundings, maintains itself, and modifies the surroundings to foster its own survival and reproduction.

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Many bacteria are pathogenic because they carry large segments of DNA called ________ ________, which were acquired by horizontal gene transfer, and which carry genes responsible for virulence.

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The person who presented a similar theory of evolution to that of Darwin was:

a. Charles Lyle. b. Alfred Wallace. c. Thomas Malthus. d. Alfred Wegener. e. Robert Ballard.

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A group of local subpopulations is called a(n)

A) community. B) species. C) metapopulation. D) ecogroup.

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Birds are most closely related to:

a. reptiles. b. testudines. c. mammals. d. labyrinthodonts. e. terrapins.

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