Biology Flashcards
What are the characteristics of living things?What criteria must be met to be considered living?
Able to reproduce, gas exchange, able to grow, (add on rest)
Describe the properties of water and why water is so important to a living organism’s survival.
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Describe pH, what is it and what does it measure in a solutions?
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Acids?
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Bases?
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Neautral?
7 pH
What are the 6 kingdoms? (include characteristic and organisms)
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What are the three domains?(include characteristic and organisms)
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Is there a hierarchy to classification? How is it constructed?
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What are different kinds of bonding and what is an example of each?
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How do scientists name and organism?
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Who was Linnaeus?
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What is a prokaryotic cell?
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What are a prokaryotic cell’s characteristics?
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What is a eukaryotic cell?
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What are a eukaryotic cell’s characteristics?
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How is modern genetics using technology to classify organisms?
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What is the hierarchy of living organisms? Describe each level.
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What is a cladogram? How is it used? What does it represent?
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What is a phylogenic tree? How is it used? What does it represent?
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What is a homologous structure? (example and type of evolution it comes from)
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What is a analogous structure? (example and type of evolution it comes from)
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What are Darwin’s views on evolution?
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What are Lamarck’s views on evolution?
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What are acquired traits? Are they heritable?
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What is the genetic drift and how does it occur? Can you show this taking place by using a graph or storyboard?
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What is the genetic equilibrium and how does it occur? Can you show this taking place by using a graph or storyboard?
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Describe three types of natural selection.
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How do populations become isolated?
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How are new species formed?
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What is a prokaryotic cell? Examples.
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What is a eukaryotic cell? Examples.
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Describe a bacterial cell.
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Does a bacterial cell share any characteristics with plant or animal cells?
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What are the four bio molecules?
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How are the four bio molecules similar?
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How are the four bio molecules different?
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What are the primary functions of the four bio molecules?
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What is the monomer of each bio molecule?
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What is the polymer of each bio molecule?
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What regents do you use to test for the presence of each bio molecule and what is the positive result?
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What are the two main categories of cell transport? Do they require energy? Describe the movement of the particles (or water) for each.
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Describe the steps of mitosis and how they into the cell cycle.
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What types of cells undergo mitosis?
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What is replication; describe the process and components. (Chargaff’s rule, base pairing, and nucleotides)
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