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Leaving Cert Biology

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What is diversity?   A wide range of living things  
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What are the common features of living things   Organisation, Nutrition, Excretion, Response and Reproduction (ONE Roger Rabbit)  
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What do you call the sum of all the chemical reactions in living things   Metabolism  
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What type of reaction involves the breakdown of larger molecules to smaller ones and also releases energy   Catabolic reaction  
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What type of reaction involves smaller molecules being used to make larger ones and takes in energy   Anabolic reaction  
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What is defined as the possession of all the characteristics   Life  
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What term is used to describe how living organisms arise from living organisms of the same type   Continuity of life  
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What are all living things made of   Cells  
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Some organisms exist as one cell, what term is used to describe this   Unicellular  
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What characteristic of living things refers to the order in which cells are made up   Organisation  
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What is the order of levels of organisation of life   Cells, Tissue, Organ, System, Organism, Population  
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What term is used to describe the way in which organisms obtain and use food for energy   Nutrition  
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What do you call organisms that can make their own food   Autotrophs  
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What do you call organisms that cannot make their own food   Heterotrophs  
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What term is used to describe the removal of waste products   Excretion  
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Name two products of excretion   Carbon dioxide and urea  
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Why is it dangerous for waste products to accumulate in the body   It becomes toxic  
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What term is given to the process by which an organism maintains a constant internal environment   Homeostasis  
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What term is used to describe the formation of new individuals   Reproduction  
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What are the two methods or reproduction   Asexual and Sexual  
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What reproduction method involves the fusion of gametes   Sexual  
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What reproduction method involves cell division   Asexual  
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What characteristic of living things refers to the reaction of organisms to stimuli in their environmnet   Response  
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