Chapter 1 Review Flashcards
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What are the 5 unifying themes of life?
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- Organization
- Information
- Energy and matter
- Interactions
- Evolutions
2
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What are the 11 levels of biological organization?
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- The biosphere
- Ecosystems – living and non-living things
- Communities – living things within an ecosystem
- Populations – A particular group of living things
- Organisms – individual living thing
- Organs – organism part with specific functions
- Tissues – group of cells that work together
- Cells – most basic functional unit of life
- Organelles – structures within cells with specialized
functions - Molecules – chemical structures consisting of two or
more atoms - Atoms – smallest unit of matter
3
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What are the differences between ecosystems, communities, and populations?
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4
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Why is the cell the most basic functional unit of life?
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5
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What are the levels at which cells store genetic information?
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6
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Why is it important to look at how some things are arranged or interact?
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7
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Why is it helpful to reduce complex ideas to simpler components?
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8
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Why is the transfer of energy considered to only flow in one direction?
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9
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Why is chemical energy considered to be cycled?
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10
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What are the three biological domains?
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11
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A scientific question should be based on these two things:
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12
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A hypothesis should be both:
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13
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What is the difference between a dependent and independent variable?
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