BIO 160 Chapter 1

Question 1

Properties of living things

Answer 1

Order, Regulate, Grow and Develop, Obtain and use energy, Respond to the environment, Reproduce, Evolve

Question 2

Organisms are made of

Answer 2

Cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism

Question 3

DNA

Answer 3

common thread in all life forms.

Question 4

How do organisms obtain and use energy?

Answer 4

By consuming other organisms or photosynthesis in the case of plants

Question 5

Reproduction

Answer 5

Will make more of its own kind

Question 6

Evolution

Answer 6

Change in the genetic makeup of a population over time

Question 7

Biosphere

Answer 7

The entire portion of the Earth inhabited by life

Question 8

Ecosystem

Answer 8

All living things and their interaction with their environment

Question 9

Population

Answer 9

a group of organisms of the same species that are living together in the same area at the same time

Question 10

Multicellular

Answer 10

an organism with many cells

Question 11

Unicellular

Answer 11

an organism made up of one cell

Question 12

prokaryotic

Answer 12

describes a cell that does not have a nucleus or anyother membrane-covered organelles; also called bacteria.

Question 13

Gene

Answer 13

A segment of DNA that codes for a polypeptide

Question 14

Genome

Answer 14

The entire amount of genetic information that an organism inherits

Question 15

Taxonomy

Answer 15

The science of grouping organism

Question 16

The three Domains

Answer 16

Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya

Question 17

The four Kingdoms of Eukarya and their properties

Answer 17

Plantae, Fungi, Animalia, Protista

Question 18

Plantae

Answer 18

produce their own sugars and other food by photosynthesis

Question 19

Fungi

Answer 19

mostly decomposers, digest dead organisms

Question 20

Animalia

Answer 20

obtain food by ingesting other organisms

Question 21

Protista

Answer 21

generally unicellular group that live in water

Question 22

The name of Darwin’s publication

Answer 22

On the origin of species by means of natural selection

Question 23

The three stages of Natural Selection

Answer 23

Overproduction and competition, individual variation is passed from generation to generation, unequal reproductive success

Question 24

Adaptation

Answer 24

a characteristic that allows a species to be better suited to their environment

Question 25

Artificial selection

Answer 25

Selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals by humans

Question 26

eukaryotic

Answer 26

A cell characterized by the presence of a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. Can be unicellular (protists) or multicellular (fungi, plants and animals).

Question 27

science

Answer 27

a way of knowing, an approach to understanding the natural world based on inquiry

Question 28

discovery science

Answer 28

describing nature

Question 29

hypothesis-driven science

Answer 29

explaining nature

Question 30

Scientific Method

Answer 30

Observation, Question, Hypothesis, Prediction, Experiment

Question 31

controlled experiment

Answer 31

type of experiment to compare an experimental group with a control group

Question 32

scientific theory

Answer 32

is much broader than a hypothesis, Theories only become widely accepted in science if they are supported by an accumulation of extensive and varied evidence