Chap. 1+2

Question 1

Emergent Properties

Answer 1

Properties that appear at each step closer to the whole, but don’t appear individually (ex: bicycle parts)

Question 2

Systems Biology

Answer 2

Studying a system’s parts to better understand the whole

Question 3

Unifying Themes of Life

Answer 3

Organization, Information, Energy and Matter, Interactions, Evolution

Question 4

Domains of Life

Answer 4

Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya

Question 5

Kingdoms of Eukarya

Answer 5

Plantae, Fungi, Animalia, and Protists

Question 6

Natural Selection

Answer 6

(Proposed by Darwin) an organisms evolutionary adaptation to their environment

Question 7

Atomic Number

Answer 7

Number of protons

Question 8

Mass number

Answer 8

Number of protons and neutrons

Question 9

Atomic Mass

Answer 9

Number of protons and neutrons, plus isotopes

Question 10

Hydrogen bonds

Answer 10

Attraction between a hydrogen and an electronegative atom (weak bonds)

Question 11

Van der Waals Interactions

Answer 11

Interactions that happen simultaneously as electrons change from one region of positivity to one of a negative charge (weak individually, but very strong together).

Question 12

Ionic bond

Answer 12

Attraction between two ions of opposite charge (like cations and anions)