25-Mar-2021 Theme: 'Auto-'

(1) What is an automaton?

Answer: A self-operating machine.

(2) What is autotomy?

Answer: Casting off a body part when under threat (eg lizard’s tail).

(3) What is an autotroph?

Answer: A ‘primary producer’ organism - which can produce its own food using light (usually), water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.

(4) What does someone who supports autogeny believe?

Answer: That living organisms can be created from non-living matter.

(5) What is a word meaning to eat or otherwise consume one’s own body?

Answer: Autophagy.

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