Can I run Lion on on a Intel Core Duo computer?

Can I run Lion on on a Intel Core Duo computer?
I have on of the Intel Core Duo  macbook.
I hope on othe apple people can answer that for me.

This is my Macbook and I seem to be able to run a depleted Lion operating system on it
no full screen on some applications. no response to multi swipe actions, No Air Drop. and so on and so on. Also when it loaded it stalled with no real information and i had to go to reload Lion which then instigated further download of 6 minutes to load a slightly amended copy of Lion. thought i had lost all my info but it did all reappear
It does have Launchpad and Mission Control but i seem to have lost my Isight camera in Photo booth and Skype. this has happened occasionaly before and a reboot brings it back for a while.
Ah well Is it time to up grade the laptop?? Do i need a laptop?? Anyway ill keep this one for a bit and see how it goes at least some of the changes work.
Model Name:          MacBook
  Model Identifier:          MacBook3,1
  Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:          2.2 GHz
  Number of Processors:          1
  Total Number of Cores:          2
  L2 Cache:          4 MB
  Memory:          2 GB
  Bus Speed:          800 MHz
  Boot ROM Version:          MB31.008E.B02
  SMC Version (system):          1.24f3
  Serial Number (system):          W8***4
  Hardware UUID:          B618B269-D4FC-5A1D-BE2E-E8B2383FEEA4
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State:          Enabled
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