Chapter 1 Test Flashcards
Properties of Living Things
Living things acquire material and energy, mantain homeostasis, respond to the environment, reproduce and develop, and adapt
Domain Archae and domain Bacteria contain?
Unicellur prokaryotes that lack a membrane-bounded nucleus
Protista decription?
mostly unicellular forms, wit a few multicellilar forms; various forms of nutrition
Fungi description?
usually multicellular, absorb food
Plantae description?
multicellular, photosynthetic
Anmalia descrption?
multicellular; ingest food
Definition of “Scientific Process”
involves using the scientific meathod, by which scientists gain information about the natural world
Inductive Reasoning definition
used to arrive at a hypothesis
deductive Reasoning definition
used to decide what types of observations and experiments are appropiate
experimental variable
indepentent variable
responding variable
depentent variable
Living things have _________ that cannot be accounted for by simply summing the parts
emergant properties
Among the levels of biological organization, the properties of life first emerge at the level of the _______
cell
Organism’s modification in structure, funtion, or behavior suitable to the environment
adaption
taxonomic category that is the subdivision of a genus; its members can breed successfully with each other but not with members of another species
species
biological community together with the associated abiotic environmemt
ecosystem
unit of heredity passed on to offspring
gene
all of the chemical reactions that occur in a cell during growth and repair
metabolism
zone of air, land, and water at the surface of the Earth in which living things are found
biosphere
branch of biology concerned with indentifying and naming organisms
taxonomy
maintenance of internal conditions in a cell or in organisms; for example, relatively constant tempeature, pH, and blood sugar
homeostasis
