Chapter 1 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What are the five themes of Biology?
Organization, Information, Energy and Matter, Interaction, and Evolution
What are the Nine Levels of biological organization? From largest to smallest
Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organisms, organs, tissue, cell, organelle, and molecule
Who founded the molecular structure of DNA?
James Watson and Francis Crick
What is a genome?
Genetic instructions that an organism inherits
What is genomics?
the study of a set of genes
What is proteomics?
the study of sets of proteins
What is feedback regulation?
A self-regulating mechanism; negative feedback is shut down and positive feedback is sped up
What are the three domains?
Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
What are the subunits to Eukarya?
Plantae, Fungi, Animalia, and protists
What is inquiry?
The search for information and explanation
Inductive reasoning process
Generalizations»_space;> Specific observations; down-up
Deductive reasoning process
Specific observations»_space;> generalizations; top-down
What is the independent variable?
The factor that is manipulated
What is the dependent variable?
The factor being predicted/measured
What is a model organism?
A species that is easy to grow in the lab
What consists of the biosphere?
All life on earth
The array of organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem :
Community
What does population consist of?
All the individuals of a species living within the bounds of a specified area
Chemical cycle?
Light from the sun for the production of chemical energy in food to the decomposition and the returning of chemicals
What is reductionism?
the reduce of complex systems to simpler components that are more manageable to study
