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Chapter 1: Biology, Exploring Life Flashcards

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1
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List life’s levels of organization from largest to smallest

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Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism, organ system, organ, tissue, cell, organelle, molecule, atom

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Which of the following levels of biological organization includes all on the list: organ, molecule population, tissue?

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population

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What are the two major processes in an ecosystem?

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Recycling chemical nutrients and flow of energy

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What is the chemical flow for producers?

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They use CO2 from air and H2O from soil and minerals from soil

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What is the chemical flow for consumers?

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Take O2 from air and return CO2, waste returns chemicals to soil

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What is the chemical flow for decomposers?

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They change wastes from consumers into minerals plants can use

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What is the difference between flow of energy and chemical nutrients?

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Chemical nutrients cycle within the web, while energy is gained and lost constantly and enters and exits the ecosystem as heat.

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What are the energy transfers for energy within the ecosystem?

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light energy to chemical energy to heat energy

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How can one tell a prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell apart?

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A prokaryotic cell has no nucleus and no membraned organelles and is usually smaller and simpler, a eukaryotic cell is usually bigger and more complex, has a nucleus, and has membraned organelles.

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What is the foundation for unity of life?

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The genetic information in DNA molecules

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How do genes become varied?

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There are 4 chemical letters that line up in some sort of sequential string that encodes precise info in genes.

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How does diversity exist?

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Diversity stems from differences in DNA sequences

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Explain how photosynthesis of plants functions in both the cycling of chemical nutrients and the flow of energy in an ecosystem.

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Photosynthesis uses light to convert CO2 and H2O to energy-rich food, making it the pathway by which both chemical nutrients and energy become available to most organisms

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Explain why cells are considered the basic units of life?

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They are the lowest level in the hierarchy of biological organization at which the properties of life emerge

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What is the chemical basis for all of life’s kinship?

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DNA as the genetic material

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What are the three domains?

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Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya

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Which are prokaryotic and typically unicellular?

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Bacteria, Archaea

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What are the kingdoms of Bacteria?

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Eubacteria

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What are the kingdoms of Archaea?

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Archaebacteria

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What are the kingdoms of Eukarya?

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Plantae, Animalia, Protista, Fungi

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What is the difference between Bacteria and Archaea?

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Bacteria are the most commonly found bacteria that are all around you daily. Archaea are the bacteria that are in more rare or unique locations like inside geysers

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List all of the characteristic of living things?

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Growth and development, Organization and presence of 1+ cells, Response to Stimuli, Metabolism, Reproduction, Change over time, and Homeostasis

23
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Describe Organization and presence of 1+ cells

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A cell is the smallest unit that can perform all of life’s processes. when it has 1 cell it is unicellular, 1+ it is multicellular

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Describe Response to Stimuli

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A response to the physical or chemical change into the internal or external environment

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Describe Homeostasis

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Same Stability. Process by which organisms maintain stable internal conditions despite what is happening in their external environment. NOT JUST TEMPERATURE (cold blooded animals)

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Describe Metabolism

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Sum of all chemical reactions that take in and transform energy and materials from environment; almost all energy originally comes from sun

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Describe Growth and Development

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Living things must grow and increase in size, cell division, and go through a process to become a mature adult

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Describe Reproduction

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Nonessential for the survival of the individual, but essential for the continuation of the species (hereditary info passed on through DNA) there is both sexual and asexual (without sex)

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Describe change through time

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change through time is important for survival in changing world

30
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List all steps of the scientific method

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Make an Observation, Ask a Question, Create a Hypothesis, Predict What Will Happen, Design and Carry Out Experiment, Conclusion

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Make an Observation

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Use senses to receive knowledge about the world

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Ask a Question

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Think about what you observed and use curiosity to ask a question

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Create a Hypothesis

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Use everything you know about what you observed and questioned to make an educated guess about why it is that way

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Predict what will happen

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Put pieces together and make statement about what you expect to happen in the experiment you are creating to answer your question.

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Design and Carry Out Experiment

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Plan experiment with all good elements of an experiment and then do it

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Experimental Group

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group in study that is test group

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control group

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group in study that is NOT test group, therefore nothing is being done to them, they just have same constants as experimental

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Independent Variable

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The variable that is being changed

39
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Dependent variable

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“D” for data, variable that is based on what IV is

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Constants

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things that you keep the same in an experiment, what both the control and experimental group must have

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Conclusion

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By analyzing results you can determine whether your hypothesis/prediction was right

42
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Difference between correlative design and scientific method

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Correlative design is like discovery science where you are just basically making observations instead of actually deterring something.

43
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How to Have Good Experimental design

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randomize the population, high sample sizes, design experiment that can be replicated by others, isolate and manipulate a defined variable

44
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Ways of Scientific Misconduct

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negligence- careless science/data
plagiarism- copying from someone else’s work
obfuscation- removing that which didn’t go well
fabrication- making up results
duplication- publishing same paper in multiple journals with a few tweaks
conflict of interest-who’s providing funding vs. the desired outcomes
authorship- orders of authors on scientific papers is based on who is most important

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