Big Ideas For Test 1 Flashcards
1
Q
7 characteristics of living things
A
1 cells and organization 2 energy use and metabolism 3 response to changes/adaption 4 regulation and homostasis 5 growth and development 6 reproduction 7 biological evolution
2
Q
8 levels of organization
A
1 cells 2 tissue 3 organ 4 organism 5 population 6 community 7 ecosystem 8 biosphere
3
Q
3 survival adaptions
A
1 avoid toxins and predator
2 move closer to nutrients
3 protect yourself
4
Q
3 domains of life
A
1 eukaryotes
2 prokaryotes
3 archaea
5
Q
Vertical descent of evolution
A
The lineage of mutations to the genes
6
Q
Horizontal gene transfer
A
Gene exchange from one specific species to another species or a different species
7
Q
Flow of info in a cell
A
DNA sequence to gene to protein
8
Q
7 protein functions
A
1 gene regulation 2 motor functions 3 defense 4 metabolic enzymes 5 cell signaling 6 structure 7 transporting
9
Q
Two types of polysaccharides
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Storage and structural
10
Q
Flow of info in a cell
A
DNA to RNA to protein synthesis
11
Q
Cell Theory
A
1 all living things are made of cells
2 cells are the smallest unit of a living organism
3 all cells arise from pre-existing cells
