This week’s 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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