Exam 1 - Chapter 1

Question 1

biology definition

Answer 1

systematic study of life

Question 2

Characteristics of life

Answer 2

• order and complexity
• composed of cells
• adaptation
• responds to environment
• reproduce
• grow and develop
• process energy
• maintain homeostatis
• use DNA as hereditary material

Question 3

biological hierarchy

Answer 3

atoms, molecules, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, multicellular organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

Question 4

fundamental unit of life

Answer 4

cell

Question 5

emergent properties

Answer 5

properties appear at each successive level of biological hierarchy

Question 6

difference between structure and function

Answer 6

ant eater tongue (structure) to eat ants (function)

Question 7

taxonomy

Answer 7

science of classifying and naming organisms

Question 8

how to write scientific name

Answer 8

italicized, genus capitalized, specific species epithet lower case

Question 9

taxonomic hierarchy

Answer 9

did king phillip come over for good sushi. domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Question 10

prokaryotic cells vs eukaryotic

Answer 10

• pro = no nucles and membrane bound structures - bacteria and archea
• eu = cells with membrane bound nucleus - plants, animals, fungi, and protists

Question 11

domain bacteria

Answer 11

bacteria prokaryotes

Question 12

domain archaea

Answer 12

archaeans prokaryotes

Question 13

domain eukarya

Answer 13

all eukaryotes, protists, pante, fungi, animalia

Question 14

science

Answer 14

way of looking at world and uncovering knowledge

Question 15

nature of science

Answer 15

-observations must be objective and testable
qualitive (descriptions) and quantitive (numeric) data
-fluid and ideas are changing

Question 16

discovery science vs hypothesis based science

Answer 16

• discovery descriptive and uses inductive reasoning

- hypothesis based science test predictions and uses deductive reasoning

Question 17

scientific method

Answer 17

observation, question, form hypothesis, prediction, perform experiment and collect data, analyze data, results and conclusions, share with community

Question 18

scientific theory

Answer 18

• overarching framework that makes sense of many observations
• describes causes of a process

Question 19

evolution

Answer 19

change over time