1. Concepts Of Biology

Question 1

What are the 2 main forms of inquiry?

Answer 1

Discovery science (inductive reasoning) and hypothesis based science (dedutive reasoning)

Question 2

What is inductive reasoning?

Answer 2

Drawing conclusions from logical process of induction (specific to general)

Question 3

What is deductive reasoning?

Answer 3

Using general premises to make specific predictions (general to specific)

Question 4

What is biology?

Answer 4

The study of living organisms

Question 5

What are the characteristics of life?

Answer 5

Response, reproduction, regulate, energy utilization, evolution, growth and order

Question 6

What are the unifying themes of biology?

Answer 6

Biological order, information, energy and matter, interaction, evolution

Question 7

What is the biological organization?

Answer 7

1. Biosphere 2 ecosystem 3 community 4. Population 5.organism 6. Organ 7. Tissue 8. Cell 9. organelle 10. Molecule

Question 8

What is biological information transfer?

Answer 8

Life’s processes which involve the expression and transmission of genetic information.

Question 9

What does the unifying theme ‘energy and matter refer to?

Answer 9

The flow of energy in a ecosystem

Question 10

What are autotrophs?

Answer 10

Organisms that can produce their own food

Question 11

What are heterotrophs?

Answer 11

Organisms that can not produce their own food (consumers)

Question 12

What are decomposes?

Answer 12

Organisms that eat dead organisms

Question 13

What are interactions?

Answer 13

An organism’s interaction with other organisms and the physical environment.

Question 14

What are the three domains of life?

Answer 14

Bacteria, archaea and Eukarya

Question 15

What are the classifications of life?

Answer 15

1. Domain 2. Kingdom 3. Phylum 4. Class 5. Order 6. Family 7. Genus 8.species