Biology Terms From Chapter One

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What are the 7 characteristics of life?

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Cellular Organization, Ordered Complexity, Sensitivity, Growth Development and Reproduction, Energy Utilization, Homeostasis and Evolutionary Adaptation

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Hierarchical organization of biology? (5 terms)

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Cellular, Organismal, Populational, Ecosystem, Biosphere

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What makes up the cellular level? (4 things)

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Atoms, Molecules, Macromolecules, Organelles

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What makes up the organism level? (4 things)

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Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism

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What makes up the population level? (3 things)

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Population, Species, Community

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What are emergent properties?

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The result of the way the different biological levels interact.

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What is Deductive Reasoning?

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General to specific

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What is Inductive Reasoning?

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Specific to General

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What is a hypothesis?

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A suggested explanation that accounts for an observation

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What is known as the iterative process?

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The idea that hypotheses can be changed and refined with new data

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What is an experiment?

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A test of a hypothesis

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What is a test experiment?

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An experiment where one variable is altered in a known way

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What is a control experiment?

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An experiment where the variable is kept the same to show contrast to the test experiment

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What is reductionism?

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The process of breaking things down to their most basic parts for easier understanding

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What is a theory? (2 definitions)

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A proposed explanation of some natural phenomenon based on some general principle, a body of interconnected concepts

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What is a carrying capacity?

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The population limit that an area can support. After the limit is reached, population will crash

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What is artificial selection?

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Man made selection based on "best" traits.

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What is natural selection?

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Natural process of adaptation "survival of the fittest"

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What are homologous limbs?

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Limbs that share the same evolutionary origin but differ in structure and function

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What are analogous limbs?

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Limbs that differ in evolutionary origin but have similar structure and function

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Robert Hooke?

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Discovered cells, England, 1665

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DNA

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Deoxyribonucleic acid, double helix, composed of nucleotides

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Gene

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A section of the DNA strand

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Genome

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The entire set of genes

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What is a prokaryote?

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A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus

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What is a Eukaryote?

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A unicellular or multicellular organism that have nuclei in their cells

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Are bacteria prokaryotes or eukaryotes?

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Prokaryotes

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Are archaea prokaryotes or eukaryotes?

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Prokaryotes

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Are Eukarya prokaryotes or eukaryotes?

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Eukaryotes

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What are the four main groups of Eukarya?

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Protista, Fungi, Anamalia, Plantae

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What is homeostasis?

Back 31

An organism's ability to regulate its internal environment

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Main idea of cell theory?

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All living things have cells

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What is evolutionary conservation?

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When a characteristic is retained through evolution because it is important to the life of an organism