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Characteristics of life Flashcards

1
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Bio (bios) meaning

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Life

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2
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Logy (logus) meaning

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the study of

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3
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Branches of science that studies all living things

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Biology

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4
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Common characteristics that all Living Things share

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  • Order or organization
  • Energy acquisition and release
  • Reproduction
  • Growth and Development
  • Regulation or Homeostasis
  • Sensitivity or response to the environment
  • Evolution
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5
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The biological levels of organization of living things arranged from the simplest to most complex

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Order or Organization

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6
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All living things need and use energy to live

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Energy acquisition and release

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7
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All energy originally comes from _____?

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Sun

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8
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All organism use a source of energy for their ________?

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Metabolic activities

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9
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An organism that produces its own food

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Autotroph

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10
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An organism that does not make its own food

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Heterotroph

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A process by which organism give rise to an offspring. It is necessary for the survival of a species.

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Reproduction

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_______ is defined as an increase in the number, size, and volume of cells

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Growth

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_______ is the emergence of specialized, morphologically different body parts

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Development

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________ is the ability of an organism to maintain its internal environment despite conditions in the external environment

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Homeostasis

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15
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Anything that causes an organism to react is called ________

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Stimuli

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16
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_____ refers to the body’s ability to detect a stimulus

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Irritability

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17
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_____ refers to the body’s ability to respond and adjust to stimulus

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Adaptability

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18
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It explains how many different kinds of organism came into existence. It also explains how modern organism are related to past organism

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Evolution

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19
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Favorable characteristics are selected for and passed on to offspring called _____

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Adaptation

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20
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It is driven by natural selection or “survival of the fittest”

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Evolution

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21
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An ______ is a substance that cannot be broken down to other substances by ordinary chemical means.

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Element

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A ______ is a substance consisting of two or more different elements combined in a fixed ratio.

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Compound

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23
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How many elements are essential to life

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25 elements

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24
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These four elements are the main ingredient to biological molecules

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Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen

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25
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It is the smallest unit of matter than still retains the properties of an element

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Atom

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26
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A subatomic particle with a single
positive electrical charge

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Proton

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27
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A subatomic particle with a
single negative charge

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Electron

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28
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Electrically neutral and has no charge

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Neutron

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29
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Greek word meaning of atom

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Indivisible

30
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These four elements constitute about 96% of our body weight

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Carbon, Hydrogen,
Nitrogen, and Oxygen

31
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This refers to the formation of a chemical bond between two or more atoms, molecules or ions to give rise to a chemical compound.

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Chemical bonding

32
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4 major classes of biomolecules

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Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nucleic acid

33
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Biologist call them ______ because they may consist of thousands of atoms

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Macromolecules

34
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It is a large molecule
consisting of many identical or similar building blocks strung together

35
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The building blocks of polymers are called

36
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How do cells form polymers from monomers

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Through Dehydration reaction

37
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The process which cells break polymer called

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Hydrolysis

38
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It is the basic unit, or monomer, of a
carbohydrate

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Monosaccharide

39
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_______ are macromolecules, polymers of
hundreds to thousands of
monosaccharides linked together by
dehydration reactions

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Polysaccharides

40
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Common types of polysaccharides

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Starch, Glycogen, Cellulose

41
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Are diverse compounds that are
grouped together because they share one trait: They do not mix well with water

42
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The fundamental structure of a lipid is comprised of what

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Fatty acids and Glycerol molecule

43
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A large lipid made up of triacylglycerol molecules; these molecules are composed of one glycerol and three fatty acids

44
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The main function of fats

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Long term energy storage

45
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Fatty acids with no double bonds. They become solid at room temperature

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Saturated fatty acids

46
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Fatty acids that contain on or more double bonds, which cause “bends” in the carbon.

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Unsaturated fatty acids

47
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A type of lipid molecule that is the main component of the cell membrane.

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Phospolipid

48
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Are lipids in which the carbon skeleton contains four fused rings

49
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It is a polymer of amino acids; very large molecules with structural and metabolic functions.

50
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Four levels of protein structure

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Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary structure

51
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A biological macromolecule which function to store genetic information and to express that information in the production of polypeptides.

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Nucleic Acid

52
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Are a single strand of nucleotides, whereas DNA is composed of two nucleotide strands that twist around each other.

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RNA molecules

53
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What is the structure of DNA called

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Double Helix

54
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Are the basic structural and functional unit of life

55
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Known as the “English Father of Microscopy”

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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)

56
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Known as the “Father of Microscopy”. He discovered bacteria. He saw that blood cells differed between animals

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

57
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German Botanist that discovered that all plants were made of cells and contributed to the creation of the cell theory

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Matthias Schleiden (1804-1881)

58
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German Zoologist that concluded that are all animals are made of cells and contributed to the creation of the cell theory

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Theodor Schwann (1810-1882)

59
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A German pathologist that is known as the “Father of Pathology”. He discovered that all living cells come only from other living cells.

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Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)

60
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General Attributes of the cell

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  • A cell can eat, grow, and move
  • A cell can perform necessary maintenance, recycle parts, and dispose of wastes
  • A cell can adapt to changes in its environment
  • It can replicate itself
61
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What are the two types of cells

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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic

62
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It serves as storage for hereditary information (nucleus or nucleoids)

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Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)

63
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A fluid surrounding the structures of the cell

64
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Controls what goes in and out the cell

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Plasma Membrane

65
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Site of protein synthesis

66
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It means “before nucleus”. Simplest organism and are very small. It has no membrane to bind its organelles

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Prokaryotic cells

67
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It contains organelles surrounded by membranes. It is found in most living organism

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Eukaryotic Cell

68
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Eu means _____, karyon refers to _____

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True, Nucleus

69
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It carry out genetic control of the cell

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Nucleus and Ribosomes

70
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Organelles involved in the manufacture, distribution, and breakdown of molecules

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Endomembrane System

71
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Energy processing organelles

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Mitochondria and Chloroplasts

72
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Provides structural support, movement, and communication between cells

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Plasma membrane, cell wall, cytoskeleton

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