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What are the five themes of Biology?

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Organization, Information, Energy and Matter, Interaction, and Evolution

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What are the Nine Levels of biological organization? From largest to smallest

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Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organisms, organs, tissue, cell, organelle, and molecule

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Who founded the molecular structure of DNA?

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James Watson and Francis Crick

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What is a genome?

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Genetic instructions that an organism inherits

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What is genomics?

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the study of a set of genes

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What is proteomics?

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the study of sets of proteins

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What is feedback regulation?

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A self-regulating mechanism; negative feedback is shut down and positive feedback is sped up

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What are the three domains?

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Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya

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What are the subunits to Eukarya?

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Plantae, Fungi, Animalia, and protists

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What is inquiry?

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The search for information and explanation

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Inductive reasoning process

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Generalizations&raquo_space;> Specific observations; down-up

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Deductive reasoning process

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Specific observations&raquo_space;> generalizations; top-down

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What is the independent variable?

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The factor that is manipulated

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What is the dependent variable?

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The factor being predicted/measured

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What is a model organism?

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A species that is easy to grow in the lab

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What consists of the biosphere?

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All life on earth

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The array of organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem :

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Community

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What does population consist of?

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All the individuals of a species living within the bounds of a specified area

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Chemical cycle?

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Light from the sun for the production of chemical energy in food to the decomposition and the returning of chemicals

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What is reductionism?

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the reduce of complex systems to simpler components that are more manageable to study

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