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List the six kingdoms of life. |
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Eubacteria, Archaebacteria |
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List the 5 basic properties shares by basic living things. |
Cellular organization, metabolism, homeostasis, reproduction, heredity |
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Identify which basic property is being described below: a. Living things got ability to produce like organisms each generation b. DNA is an organic molecule that stores an organism's genetic information c. Whenever an organism's internal environment begins to vary from its normal, healthy state, a series of complex mechanisms will occur that are designed to bring the internal environment back to normal. d. All living things are composed of cells. e. Plants utilize energy from the sun. This energy is then passed to other organisms when they ingest the plants |
A. Reproduction B. Heredity C. Homeostasis D. Cellular organization E. Metabolism |
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List the levels of order found in living things, including the levels that describe their relationships with other organisms and the environment, beginning with the simplest level. |
Atoms, molecules, macromolecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism, population, species, community, ecosystem |
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What is an emergent property? |
An emergent property is a property exhibited at one level of order that was not exhibited at a simpler level of order |
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List the 5 major themes that unify and explain biology |
Evolution, the flow of energy, cooperation, structure determines function, homeostasis |
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Identify which major theme is being described below: A. Anciently giraffes had short necks; the modern giraffe has a long neck. B. Cell-to-cell signaling within an organism helps to maintain a stable internal environment. C. The mitochondria found within animal cells may have been an independent organism at one time. D. The bill of a hummingbird is uniquely suited to gathering nectar from flowers. E. Although energy can be passed from one organism to another, some of the energy will be lost as heat |
A. EvolutionB. HomeostasisC. CooperationD. Structure determines functionE. The flow of energy |
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Fill in the blanks in the following statements: A. A hypothesis is proposed after making careful ___________________. B. A possible explanation for an observation is a(n) _____________________. C. The test of a hypothesis is a(n) ______________________. D. The expected consequence of a hypothesis is a(n) ___________________. E. Any factor that may influence a process is called a(n) _____________________. F. The test in which one variable is altered is called the ________________ test. G. The test in which no variables are altered is called the ____________________ experiment. H. Science can never ____________ something is true. I. Science can only determine what is _____________. J. A hypothesis that has been tested many times and failed to be disproven is often called a ____________. |
A. observations.B. hypothesis.C. experiment.D. prediction.E. variable.F. experimentalG. controlH. prove. I. Not true (also could answer unsupported).J. theory. |
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List the 4 theories that unify biology as a science. |
Cell Theory, Gene Theory, Theory of Heredity, Theory of Evolution |
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What are the three principles of the cell theory? |
All living things are composed of cells, all cells come from preexisting cells, a cell is the basic unit of life |
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Who discovered the structure of DNA? in what year? |
Crick and Watson. 1953 |
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How does a molecule of DNA store information? |
In the sequence of its nucleotides |
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A particular sequence of nucleotides in a DNA molecules will store information for a particular trait. What is this sequence of nucleotides called? |
A gene |
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Do all living things store genetic information in DNA? |
Yes |
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Summarize the Gene Theory in one sentence. |
DNA carries information that cells use to make RNA and proteins; RNA and proteins determine the characteristics of an organism |
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Who advanced the Theory of Heredity? in what year? |
Gregor Mendel. 1865 |
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Summarize the Theory of Heredity in one sentence |
The genes of an organism are inherited as individual units |
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What does the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance add to the Theory of Inheritance? |
That genes are physically located on chromosomes and are distributed to reproductive cells in a way that demonstrates patterns of inheritence documented by Mendel |
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The Theory of Evolution says that the diversity we see among living things in the world today is the result of _______________ |
Natural selection |
