How do living things respond to their environment ? provide 2 examples.

As we learned, living things respond to their environments. Anything that causes a living organism to react is called a stimulus. ... Living things respond to stimuli and adjust themselves to maintain balance; this is called homeostasis. For example, when the sun gets too bright, your pupils get smaller.

an organism's phenotype is the  form of a trait  that it  displays. for  flowercolor, a pea  plant  can  display  a phenotype of purple or white flowers. an organism's  genotype  is the alleles of a gene it contains. based on his data, mendel concluded that a phenotype can be  determined  by more than one  genotype.