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Chapter 1 Exploring Life Flashcards

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Charles Darwin’s book On the origin of species by means of natural selection articulates what two main points?

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A large amount of evidence supports the idea of evolution, that species today are descendants of ancestral species in what Darwin called “descent with modification”
Natural selection is a mechanism for evolution

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The entire portion of Earth inhabited by life; the sum of all the planet’s ecosystem

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Biosphere

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All the organisms in a given area, along with the nonliving (abiotic) factors with which they interact; a biological community and it’s physical environment

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Ecosystem

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A group of individuals belonging to one species and living in the geographic area

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Population

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An individual living thing,such as bacterium, fungus, protist, plant, or animal

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Organism

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A group of organs that work together in performing viral body functions

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Organ system

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A specialized structure composed of several different types of tissues that together form specific functions

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Organ

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Two or more atoms held together by covalent bonds

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Molecules

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What can a cell do?

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Regulate it's internal environment 
Take in and use energy 
Respond to its environment 
Develop and maintain its complex organization
Give rise to new cells
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An integrated group of cells with a common function, structure or both

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Tissues

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A basic unit of living matter separated from its environment by a plasma membrane; the fundamental structural unit of life

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Cell

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A membrane-enclosed structure with a specialized function within a cell

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Organelle

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A type of cell lacking a membrane-enclosed nucleus and other membrane-enclosed organelles; found only in the domains bacteria and Archaea

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Prokaryotic Cells

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A type of cell that has a membrane-enclosed nucleus and other membrane-enclosed organelles.

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Eukaryotic Cells

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Natural selection was inferred by connecting what two observations?

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Individuals in a population vary in their traits, many of which are passed on from parents to offspring
A population can produce far more than the environment can support

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All organisms except what have eukaryotic cells?

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Bacteria, Archaea

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New properties that arise in each step upward in the hierarchy of life

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Emergent Properties

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What is the level at which the properties of life emerge?

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Cells

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What do all cells have?

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Enclosed by a membrane that regulates the passage of materials between the cell and it’s surroundings and use DNA as their genetic information

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What acts as recyclers, changing complex matter into simpler mineral nutrients?

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Decomposers

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What are the two basic types of cells?

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Prokaryotic Cells and Eukaryotic Cells

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Contain membrane-enclosed organelles, including a nucleus containing DNA and are found in plants, animals, and fungi

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Eukaryotic Cells

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Systems biology models what?

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The complex interactions of biological systems ranging from the function of the biosphere to the complex molecular machinery of a cell

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Cells illustrate what other theme in biology

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The correlation of structure and function

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Were the first to evolve
Are simpler
Are usually smaller than eukaryotic cells

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Prokaryotic Cells

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Living organisms interact with who and what in their environments

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Other organisms and physical factors

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The unit of inheritance that transmits information from parents to offspring
Grouped into very long DNA molecules called chromosomes
Control the activities of a cell

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Genes

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A species’ genes are coded in what?

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The sequences of the four building blocks making up DNA’s double helix

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What are the producers that provide the food?

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Plants

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Who eats plants and other animals?

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Consumers

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The diversity of life can be arranged into what?

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Three domains

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The dynamics of ecosystems include what two major processes?

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  1. ) The recycling of chemical nutrients from the atmosphere and soil through producers, consumers and decomposes back to the environment
  2. ) The one-way flow of energy through an ecosystem, entering as sunlight, converted to chemical energy by producers, passed on to consumers, and exiting as heat
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Human-caused environmental changes are powerful selective forces that affect the evolution of many species including what?

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Antibiotic-resistance bacteria
Pesticide-resistant pests
Endangered species
Increasing rates of extinction

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The unity of life is based on what?

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DNA and a common genetic code

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Scientific research benefits from what?

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New technologies

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What is the chemical substance of genes?

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DNA

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The size that stretches from molecules to the biosphere

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Vertical dimension

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All forms of life essentially use what to do what?

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The same code to translate the stored information into proteins

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What are the 4 letters that make up the DNA code?

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ACTG

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We can think of biology’s scope as having what?

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Two dimensions

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The prokaryotes that often live in Earth’s extreme environments

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Archaea

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Spans across the great diversity of organisms existing now and over the long history of life on Earth

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Horizontal dimension

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Evolutionary theory is useful in what?

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Medicine
Agriculture
Forensics
Conservation

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What is the hallmark of life?

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Diversity

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Biologists have identified about how many species?

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1.8 million species

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Have eukaryotic cells and include single-called protests and multicellular fungi, animals, and plants

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Eukarya

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Estimates of the actual number of species ranges from?

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10 to 100 million species

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The most diverse and widespread prokaryotes

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Bacteria

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What explains the unity and diversity of life?

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Evolution

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Evolution accounts for life’s dual nature of what?

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Kinship and diversity

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Scientist use what to draw general conclusions from many observations.

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Inductive reasoning

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In 1859, Charles Darwin published what?

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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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How is a theory different from a hypothesis?

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A scientific theory is much broader in scope than a hypothesis, usually general enough to generate many new, specific hypotheses, which can be tested. Supported by a large and usually growing body of evidence

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What is a mechanism for evolution?

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Natural selection

55
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What is used to ask and answer questions about nature?

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Scientific inquiry

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As a result of this unequal reproductive success over many generations, an increasing proportion of individuals will have what? And what will the results be?

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The advantageous traits and the results will be evolutionary adaptation, the accumulation of favorable traits in a population over time.

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A widely accepted explanatory idea that is broader in scope than a hypothesis, generates new hypotheses, and is supported by a large body of evidence

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Theory

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Those individuals with heritable traits best-suited to the environment are more like to what?

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Survive and reproduce than less well-suited individuals

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A testable explanation for a set of observations based on the available data guided by inductive reasoning

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Hypothesis

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Technological advances stem from what

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Scientific research

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A type of logic in which generalizations are based of a large number of specific observations

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Inductive reasoning

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What is a way of knowing?

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Science

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Many issues facing society are related to what? Most involve what?

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Biology and our expanding technology

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An experiment in which an experimental group is compared with a control group that varies only in the factor being tested

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Controlled experiment

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The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning what?

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To know

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