intro to biology

Question 1

What does CER stand for?

Answer 1

Claim, evidence, reasoning

Question 2

What does PMC stand for?

Answer 2

Program, metabolism, container

Question 3

What is the smallest level of organization?

Answer 3

Atom

Question 4

What is the largest level of organization?

Answer 4

Bioshere

Question 5

What is the study of living things?

Answer 5

PMC

Question 6

What does container stand for in PMC?

Answer 6

Keeping things in and out

Question 7

What is the smallest unit that is capable of carrying out all life processes?

Answer 7

Cell

Question 8

What do we utilize making arguments?

Answer 8

CER

Question 9

Are viruses a living thing? Use CER to support your answer.

Answer 9

virus can not be classified as a living thing. A virus doesn’t qualify for most of the important things that a living thing needs to be considered living. Such as, energy sources, A virus such as influenza has no source of energy as shown to us in the data table. Living things need to have an energy source to be considered living, so that being said, influenza couldn’t be a living thing. These reasoning support my claim of why a virus can not be classified as a living thing.

Question 10

If the ecosystems abiotic factors suddenly disappeared what would happen?

Answer 10

The Ecosystem could no longer be called an ecosystem because one of its major parts would be gone.