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Chapter 1 - Characteristics Of Life Flashcards

1
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-ology

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Study of

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2
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All living things must be made of ______

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Cells

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3
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All living things must be able to ________

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Reproduce

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All living things must be able to ______

Baby-> adult

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Grow

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5
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All living things must use _______

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Energy

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6
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All living things must be able to adapt to________

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Changes in environment

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Must _____ and ______

Bacteria-> humans

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Adapt and evolve

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Homeostasis

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Maintain a stable internal environment

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9
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Examples of homeostasis

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Sweating and shivering

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10
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Objects that posses all characteristics of a living thing is called an

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Organism

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11
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All living things are made up of ____ or more_____

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One or more cells

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12
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Cells are the _______ unit of all living things

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Basic

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13
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Cells and DNA control what??

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Control organisms life process

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14
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Reproduction passes on _____

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Genetic information to their offspring

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Growth

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A change in size

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Development

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All changes that take place during an organisms life

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17
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A stimulus is_____

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Something an organism responds to

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A reaction to a stimulus is a

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Response

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Metabolism

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Combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials

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Adaptation

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Any change to a stimulus that enables the organism to live better

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21
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Adaptations are inherited from ____

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Past generations

22
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Evolution leads to??

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Adaptation

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Evolution

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Gradual accumulations of adaptions over time

24
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Is an object considered living if it doesn’t have all characteristic traits??

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-bios

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Organism

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Single living thing

27
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What is the goal of science

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To better understand the natural world

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Organization

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The degree of order within the cell

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Reproduction

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Organisms producing new organisms

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Growth

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When cells enlarge

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Response

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A change in organisms due to a change in the environment

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Homeostasis

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The same level of the internal conditions though the environment is changing

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Use of energy

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Turning food into energy

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Problem

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The question you set out to solve

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Observation

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The act of witnessing a natural occurrence that causes you to ask a question

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Hypothesis

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It propose exclamation for why something is the way it is

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Experiment

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What is used to test the hypothesis

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Data

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The results of the experiment

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Conclusion

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The results of your finds

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Independent variable

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(In) what you are changing IN the experiment

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The dependent variable

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The data you are getting from the experiment

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Control group

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The things that stays the same

43
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Experimental group

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The things you are changing

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Theory

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When a certain hypothesis is found to be true many times and it has a lot of data to back it up

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The purpose of the control group

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You have Constance in your experiment and something that doesn’t change

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The purpose to record results and conclusions in scientific journals

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Sue other scientists have something to compare results of the same experiments and so they can be peer review and make your work better

47
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How does the scientific theory developed

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The theory starts by being proven many times then grocery long process of scientific peer-review

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Quantitative data

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Qualitative data

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Using description

50
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Describe the basic purpose of science

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To Control, predict and better understand the natural world.

51
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Is science good or bad

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Both

Depends on how you use it

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