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Lesson 1: Characteristics of Life Flashcards

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1
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Enumerate the characteristics of Life

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response to a stimulus (plural, stimuli), homeostasis, metabolism, growth and development, reproduction, and change through time.

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high degree of order within an organism’s internal and external parts and in its interactions with the living world

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Organization

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What are the levels of Biological Organization (smallest to largest)

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Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere

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Mitochondrion is an example of?

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Organelle

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Phospholipid is an example of

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Biological Molecule

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4 main types of biomolecules

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Lipids, Carbohydrates, Proteins, Nucleic Acids

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structures that carry out specialized jobs within an organ system.

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Organs

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groups of cells that have similar abilities and that allow the organ to function

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Tissue

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covered by a membrane, contain all genetic information necessary for replication, and be able to carry out all cell functions

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Cell

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tiny structures that carry out functions necessary for the cell to stay alive.

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Organelles

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contain biological molecules, chemical compounds that provide physical structure and that bring about movement, energy use, and other cellular functions.

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Organelles

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maintenance of a stable level of internal conditions even though environmental conditions are constantly changing.

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Homeostasis

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To keep a constant temperature, an owl’s cells burn fuel to produce body heat. In addition, an owl’s feathers can fluff up in cold weather. What characteristic of life is shown in this example?

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Homeostasis

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sum of all the chemical reactions that take in and transform energy and materials from the environment.

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Metabolism

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plants, algae, and some bacteria use the sun’s energy to generate sugar molecules during a process called photosynthesis. What characteristic of life is shown in this example?

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Metabolism

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Owls extract and modify the chemicals trapped in its nightly prey and use them as energy to fuel activities and growth. What characteristic of life is shown in this example?

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Metabolism

17
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process by which an organism becomes a mature adult., which involves cell division and cell differentiation, or specialization

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Development

18
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essential for the continuation of a species.

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Reproduction

19
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What does DNA stand for?

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Deoxyribonucleic Acid

20
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A short segment of DNA that contains the instructions for a single trait of an organism

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Gene

21
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In this process, hereditary information recombines from two organisms of the same species. The resulting offspring are similar but not identical to their parents.

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Sexual Reproduction

22
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In this process, hereditary information from different organisms is not combined; thus the original organism and the new organism are genetically the same.

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Asexual

23
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Biologists have identified more than ___ species on Earth

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1.5 million

24
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Enumerate the Hierarchy of Biological Organization (Largest to smallest)

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Domain, Kingdom, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

25
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Enumerate the 3 Domains

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Bacteria, Archaea , Eukarya

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Ecosystem came from the Greek words, “” and “”, meaning “” and “” respectively

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eco and system ; house and ordered parts in a whole

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Enumerate the 6 Kingdoms

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Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, Bacteria

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communities of living species and their physical environments.

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Ecosystem

29
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process in which the inherited characteristics within populations change over generations, such that genetically distinct populations and new species can develop

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Evolution (Descent with Modification)

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According to this theory, organisms that have certain favorable traits are better able to survive and reproduce successfully than organisms that lack these traits.

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Natural Selection

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Traits that improve an individual’s ability to survive and reproduce.

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Adaptation

32
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helps us understand how the various branches of the “tree of life” came into existence and have changed over time.

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Evolution

33
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Cell came from the Latin word, “” meaning “”

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cella ; small room or hut

34
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Simplest particle of an element that retains all the properties of a certain element.

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Atom

35
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formation of two new cells from an existing cell

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Cell Division

36
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How many cells does a whale have?

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about 1000 trillion

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