Chapters 1 Flashcards
Biology
The study of life
Common characteristics of life
Order, regulation, growth & development, energy utilization, response to environment, reproduction and evolution
Order
Complex & ordered organization
Regulation
Maintain internal homeostasis when environment changes
Growth and development
Based on jeans from generation to generation (information carried by DNA)
Energy utilization
Takes in energy and transform it for use
Response to environment
Shivering (like Venus fly trap, responds to touch, sensory)
Reproduction
Pass on genetic info.reproduce their own kind doesn’t change. Hipo reproduce hipo.
Evolution
Reproduction allows change. Evolve in population. Change will
Biosphere
All life, or places where life exist. (the earth is the largest level)
Ecosystem
Everything living or dead in a region. example: savanna all the animals, water, soil, air
Community
All of the organisms like grass, animals, insects. Tide pool
Population
One species example zebra
Organism
One living thing example one zebra
Organ system
Heart and blood vessels
Organ
Heart
TIssue
Groups of similar cells performing a specific function
Cells
The basic unit of life
Molecular
A cluster of Adams example DNA
Adams
The smallest unit of matter (element)
Ecosystem organism interacts with its environment two main processes
- Cycling of nutrients: nutrients taken up by plants return to the soil
- Flow of energy in sunlight
Procedures = plants by photosynthesis
Consumers animals eat plants, decomposers fungi break down organisms back to minerals.
DNA
All cells use DNA
Genes
Half of our genes came from each our parents
Code for protein
Adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine (ATCG)