Chapter 1 The Study Of Life

Question 1

What is a tissue?

Answer 1

a group of similar cells that perform a specific function

Question 2

What is a cell?

Answer 2

the smallest unit of life

Question 3

What is an organ system?

Answer 3

Several organs that work together

Question 4

What is reproduction?

Answer 4

The process of making offspring

Question 5

What are genes?

Answer 5

DNA that are passed to offspring

Question 6

How do organisms respond to external stimuli?

Answer 6

By moving toward or away from the stimuli

Question 7

What is an organisms behavior?

Answer 7

Avoiding injury, acquiring food, mating

Question 8

What are key elements in Homeostasis?

Answer 8

organisms maintain a relatively constant internal environment.

Question 9

How long has life been on earth?

Answer 9

4 billion yrs

Question 10

A feature in Adaptations

Answer 10

adapt to the world to create more offspring

Question 11

What is evolution?

Answer 11

How specifices change over the years

Question 12

What is taxonomy?

Answer 12

Identifying and grouping organisms

Question 13

What is systematics?

Answer 13

Study of evolutionary relationships among organisms

Question 14

What are the classifications of an organism?

Answer 14

Taxonomy,
species,
genus,
family,
order,
class,
phylum,
kingdom,
supergroup,
or domain

Question 15

What is a domain?

Answer 15

Classification of organisms based on biochemical and genetic evidence

Question 16

Where is prokaryotic cells found in?

Answer 16

Archaea and Bacteria

Question 17

What is a prokaryotic cell?

Answer 17

A cell that lacks a nucleus

Question 18

What is eukaryotic cells?

Answer 18

cells with a nucleus

Question 19

Where do bacteria live?

Answer 19

water, soil, atmosphere and human skin

Question 20

Where do
Archaea live?

Answer 20

Extreme temperatures

Question 21

What are some fungi?

Answer 21

Mushrooms, molds

Question 22

3 kingdoms that Eukaryotes evolved from protists?

Answer 22

Plants, Fungi, Animals

Question 23

What are some details about Protists eating habits?

Answer 23

some are photosynthetic and some must acquire food. Algae, protozoans, and water molds.

Question 24

What is protists

Answer 24

single celled organisms.

Question 25

What are the kingdoms eukaryotes are categorized in

Answer 25

Fungi, Plantae, animalia, protista- split into several supergroups

Question 26

How is Taxonomists classified by?

Answer 26

Genus name + specific epthet. Genus name is always capital

Question 27

What is bio?

Answer 27

Study of life

Question 28

What is observation?

Answer 28

understanding life by observing it and studying it

Question 29

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 29

An explanations for a natural event

Question 30

What is deductive reasoning?

Answer 30

how to test the hypothesis “if “
then logic

Question 31

What is Data?

Answer 31

Results viewed through tables and graphs

Question 32

What is a scientific theory?

Answer 32

theory is supported by a broad
range of observations, experiments, and data

Question 33

What do the control group get?

Answer 33

The Placebo

Question 34

What are some details about Climate Change?

Answer 34

More Carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere than is being removed
Burning of fossil fuels
destruction of forest

Question 35

What is reemerging diseases?

Answer 35

not have been considered a health risk due to a relatively low level of incidence in humans

Question 36

What is biodiversity?

Answer 36

All the species with different genes and ecosystems.

Question 37

What is inductive reasoning

Answer 37

observations used to develop a general explanation, idea or hypothesis

Question 38

What is the process of reproduction in Multicellular organisms?

Answer 38

Fertilization followed by cell division

Question 39

What are some details for Eukrarya?

Answer 39

Cells with true Nucleus
Genes are found within the nucleus