Ch. 1 Biology - The Study of Life

Question 1

**What is biology?

Answer 1

The study of life.

Question 2

What is a key aspect of biology?

Answer 2

Simply learning about the different types of living things around you. Biologists have not yet answered all the questions about life.

Question 3

What will you ask when studying the different types of living things?

Answer 3

What, why and how questions about life.

Question 4

Why do biologists study the interactions of life?

Answer 4

Living things do not exist in isolation; they are all functioning parts in the balance of nature.

Question 5

Biologists study the __________ of life.

Answer 5

Diversity.

Question 6

Biologists study the __________ of the environment.

Answer 6

Interactions.

Question 7

When studying living things, a biologist must study -

Answer 7

All shelving (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) things to get a thorough understanding of nature.

Question 8

**What is an organism?

Answer 8

Anything that possesses all of the characteristics of life.

Question 9

**What are the characteristics of living things?

Answer 9

1. Have an orderly structure. 2. All organisms need a source of energy to carry out life processes. 3. Adjust to changes in the environment. 4. Produce offspring. 5. All levels of life have systems of related parts. 6. Organisms must maintain homeostasis to survive in diverse environments. 7. Living things adapt and evolve.

Question 10

How do living things have an orderly structure?

Answer 10

How do living things have an orderly structure?

Question 11

Why is it important for organisms to have a source of energy?

Answer 11

Energy is important for metabolism or all chemical processes that build up or break down materials.

Question 12

How must organisms adjust to changes in the environment?

Answer 12

1. Organisms must be able to respond to stimuli in their environment. 2. They must be able to react to their environment to survive. 3. Light, temperature and touch are just a few of the physical factors called stimuli, to which organisms must respond.

Question 13

Why is producing offspring important?

Answer 13

Living things are able to reproduce. Reproduction is not essential for the survival of an individual but it is essential for the continuation of the organism’s species.

Question 14

All organisms have _______ that they pass on to offspring.

Answer 14

DNA

Question 15

_______ = a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.

Answer 15

Specie.

Question 16

All levels of life have systems of related parts. What is a system?

Answer 16

An organized group of interacting parts.

Question 17

**A cell is?

Answer 17

A system of chemicals and processes.

Question 18

A body system?

Answer 18

Includes organs that interact.

Question 19

**Organisms must maintain homeostasis to survive in diverse environments. What is homeostasis?

Answer 19

The maintenance of constant internal conditions and is usually maintained through negative feedback.

Question 20

**____ ____ systems return a conditions to its normal (set) point.

Answer 20

Negative feedback.

Question 21

What is adaptation?

Answer 21

Any inherited structure, behavior or internal process that enables an organism to respond to environmental factors and live to produce offspring.

Question 22

**What is evolution?

Answer 22

The gradual change in a species over time.

Question 23

Ch. 1.2 Points are?

Answer 23

1. Have organization, 2. metabolism, 3. adjust to stimuli, 4. reproduce, 5. organized system, 6. maintain homeostasis, 7. adapt/evolve.

Question 24

**What is science?

Answer 24

Observing the world. Observing and recording.

Question 25

**What is an organism?

Answer 25

An individual animal, plant or single cell life form.

Question 26

** What is metabolism?

Answer 26

The chemical reactions that take place in the body’s cells in order to maintain life. E.g., converting food to energy.