Exam 1

Question 1

What is biology?

Answer 1

the scientific study of life

Question 2

What are the levels of biological organization?

Answer 2

Molecules
Organelles
Cells
Tissues
Organs and Organ Systems
Organisms
Populations
Communities
Ecosystems
Biosphere

Question 3

What are the three domains of life?

Answer 3

Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya

Question 4

Domain Bacteria

Answer 4

includes the most diverse and widespread prokaryotes which are in a rod-shaped structure such as bacteria. classified into multiple kingdoms.

Question 5

Domain Archaea

Answer 5

Some prokaryotes which live in the most extreme environments. classified into multiple kingdoms.

Question 6

Domain Eukarya

Answer 6

for the purpose of this class, there are 4 kingdoms within this domain: Plantae, Protists, Animalia, Fungi.

Question 7

Kingdom Animalia

Answer 7

consists of multicellular eukaryotes that ingest other organisms

Question 8

Kingdom Plantae

Answer 8

consists of terrestrial multicellular eukaryotes that carry out photosynthesis (conversion of light energy to chemical energy in food)

Question 9

Kingdom Fungi

Answer 9

defined by nutritional mode of its members, which absorb nutrients from outside their bodies

Question 10

Kingdom Protists

Answer 10

unicellular eukaryotes and some simple multicellular relatives.

Question 11

On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Answer 11

Published by Charles Robert Darwin in Nov 1859

Question 12

Two main points of On the Origin of Species

Answer 12

1) Species have arisen from