Chapter 1

Question 1

what is he study of living things, science of life

Answer 1

biology

Question 2

membrane bound nucleus is called?

Answer 2

eukaryotes

Question 3

lack membrane bound nucleus are called?

Answer 3

prokaryotes

Question 4

what are the five fundamental properties that living things share?

Answer 4

cellular organization, energy utilization, homeostasis, growth, development, & reproduction, heredity

Question 5

cellular level, organismal level, population level, ecosystem level are known as….

Answer 5

hierarchal level

Question 6

reasoning that applies to general principles to predict specific results is called….

Answer 6

deductive reasoning

Question 7

The type of reasoning that uses specific observations to construct general scientific principles?

Answer 7

inductive reasoning

Question 8

what causes an explanation that must generate testable predictions?

Answer 8

hypothesis

Question 9

__________ is a philisophical approach to understand a complex system by reducing it to it’s known working parts.

Answer 9

reductionism

Question 10

When nature fosters variation by aritificial selection, this is called ________.

Answer 10

natural selection

Question 11

homologous means….

Answer 11

to have the same evolutionary origin

Question 12

analogous means….

Answer 12

have a similar function but different evolutionary origin

Question 13

unifying theme of biology is to…..

Answer 13

explain the relationship between structure and function