Chapter 1 Biology Flashcards
What is all Around us?
Biology
What is Biology?
The Study of Life
Biology Provides?
An exciting breakthrough in culture
At this time we are?
Living in the golden age of Biology
What helps us address environmental issues?
Ecology
What 2 things are reshaping psychology and Sociology?
Neuroscience and Evolutionary Biology
Name the Classifications/Characteristics of Life?
Order Regulation Growth and Development Energy Utilization Response to the Environment Reproduction Evolution
What are the many Levels of Life?
- Biosphere
- Ecosystems
- Communities
- Populations
- Organisms
- Organ systems and organs
- Tissues
- Cells
- Organelles
- Molecules and Atoms
Each Organism Interacts with?
The Environment
Non Living and Living things
Where does interaction between the organism and the environment take place?
It Takes place with in an ecosystem
What are the 2 main processes that the dynamic of an ecosystem depend on?
- Cycling of Nutrients
2. Flow of energy
What are all Organisms Composed of?
Cells
What are 2 Major Cell Types?
- Prokaryotic
2. Eukaryotic
What is Simple and smaller and contains no organelles?
Prokaryotic
What is large, more complex and contains organelles?
Eukaryotic
Bacteria Cells are what major cell type?
Prokaryotic
Solving crimes, and Revealing ancestors are apart of?
Molecular Biology
What is the largest in most eukaryotic cells?
Nucleuis
All cells use what?
DNA
What is DNA?
The Chemical matter of Genes
What is the unit of inheritance that transmit information from parents to offsprings?
Genes
The Language of DNA contains 4 letters. What are these 4 letters?
A. G. C. T.
What is the entire book of genetic instruction, that an organism inherits? What is this called?
Genome