Chapter 1 Test

Question 1

Properties of Living Things

Answer 1

Living things acquire material and energy, mantain homeostasis, respond to the environment, reproduce and develop, and adapt

Question 2

Domain Archae and domain Bacteria contain?

Answer 2

Unicellur prokaryotes that lack a membrane-bounded nucleus

Question 3

Protista decription?

Answer 3

mostly unicellular forms, wit a few multicellilar forms; various forms of nutrition

Question 4

Fungi description?

Answer 4

usually multicellular, absorb food

Question 5

Plantae description?

Answer 5

multicellular, photosynthetic

Question 6

Anmalia descrption?

Answer 6

multicellular; ingest food

Question 7

Definition of “Scientific Process”

Answer 7

involves using the scientific meathod, by which scientists gain information about the natural world

Question 8

Inductive Reasoning definition

Answer 8

used to arrive at a hypothesis

Question 9

deductive Reasoning definition

Answer 9

used to decide what types of observations and experiments are appropiate

Question 10

experimental variable

Answer 10

indepentent variable

Question 11

responding variable

Answer 11

depentent variable

Question 12

Living things have _________ that cannot be accounted for by simply summing the parts

Answer 12

emergant properties

Question 13

Among the levels of biological organization, the properties of life first emerge at the level of the _______

Answer 13

cell

Question 14

Organism’s modification in structure, funtion, or behavior suitable to the environment

Answer 14

adaption

Question 15

taxonomic category that is the subdivision of a genus; its members can breed successfully with each other but not with members of another species

Answer 15

species

Question 16

biological community together with the associated abiotic environmemt

Answer 16

ecosystem

Question 17

unit of heredity passed on to offspring

Answer 17

gene

Question 18

all of the chemical reactions that occur in a cell during growth and repair

Answer 18

metabolism

Question 19

zone of air, land, and water at the surface of the Earth in which living things are found

Answer 19

biosphere

Question 20

branch of biology concerned with indentifying and naming organisms

Answer 20

taxonomy

Question 21

maintenance of internal conditions in a cell or in organisms; for example, relatively constant tempeature, pH, and blood sugar

Answer 21

homeostasis