Chapter 1

Question 1

What is Biology

Answer 1

The study of life

Question 2

What are the five qualities that constitute life?

Answer 2

1. Growth, Evolution, and development
2. Reproduction
3. Organization
4. Maintenance of internal constancy
5. Energy use

Question 3

What is growth?

Answer 3

A quantitative size or number.

Question 4

What is development?

Answer 4

A change that has nothing to do with size

Question 5

What is Evolution?

Answer 5

Change over time.

Question 6

What are the 12 levels of life’s organizational hierarchy?

Answer 6

1. Atom
2. Molecule
3. organelle
4. cell
5. tissue
6. organ
7. organ system
8. organism
9. population
10. community
11. ecosystem
12. biosphere

Question 7

What are emergent properties?

Answer 7

A new property that arises as you move through the hierarchy.

Question 8

What are primary producers? (autotrophs)

Answer 8

They make their own food and energy

Question 9

What are consumers? (Heterotrophs)

Answer 9

They get their energy by eating other things.

Question 10

What is a decomposer?

Answer 10

A consumer that specializes in breaking down decaying matter.

Question 11

What is Homeostasis?

Answer 11

Maintaining equilibrium. (or the same state)

Question 12

What is asexual reproduction?

Answer 12

A form of reproduction when one organism is involved.

Question 13

what is sexual reproduction

Answer 13

A form of reproduction when two organisms are involved

Question 14

what are adaptations?

Answer 14

A trader characteristic that provides an advantage for an organism.

Question 15

What is natural selection?

Answer 15

Nature picking out the best individuals. (mechanism of evolution)

Question 16

What of the three branches of the tree of life? (Also know as the 3 domains)

Answer 16

1) bacteria
2) archaea
3) Eukarya

Question 17

Characteristics of Bacteria

Answer 17

No nucleus and most are unicellular

Question 18

Characteristics of Archaea

Answer 18

No nucleus and most are unicellular

Question 19

Characteristic of Eukarya

Answer 19

Contains nucleus and cam be multi or single cell

Question 20

What are the 4 main groups of Eukarya?

Answer 20

1. Protista
2. Fungi
3. Animalia
4. plantae

Question 21

Characteristics of Protista

Answer 21

Single or multicellular, Autotroph or heterotroph

Question 22

Characteristics of fungi

Answer 22

single or multicellular, heterotrophs

Question 23

Characteristics of animalia

Answer 23

Multicellular, heterotrophs

Question 24

characteristics of plantae

Answer 24

Multicellular, autotrophs

Question 25

What is Taxonomy

Answer 25

The science of naming and organizing species

Question 26

What are Taxa

Answer 26

Any category/group

Question 27

what is a species?

Answer 27

an alike individual that can breed and their offspring could breed

Question 28

What is the taxonomic hierarchy?

Answer 28

1. Domain
2. kingdom
3. Phylum
4. class
5. order
6. family
7. genus
8. species

Question 29

how are genus and species written

Answer 29

they must be italicized with genus capital and species lowercase.

Question 30

What is science?

Answer 30

The collection of information about the natural world

Question 31

What are the 4 main steps of scientific inquiry

Answer 31

1. Observations and ask questions
2. hypothesis and prediction
3. data collection
4. analysis

Question 32

What are theories?

Answer 32

An idea that has been tested over and over again and has gained worldwide acceptance.