Module #1 Review Questions Flashcards
All life forms contain deoxyribonucleic acid which is called what?
DNA
All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from their surroundings and convert it into what?
Energy that sustain them
All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and do what?
Respond to their changes
All life forms have the ability to?
Reproduce
DNA provides the information necessary to take a bunch of lifeless chemicals and turn them into what?
An ordered, living system
What can be split into two categories of anabolism and catabolism?
Metabolism
Metabolism can be split into two categories: which category involves using energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures?
Anabolism
Metabolism can be split into two categories: which one is the breaking down of chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks?
Catabolism
The vast majority of energy that sustains life comes from what?
The sun
Green plants use that energy to make food for themselves via a process called what?
Photosynthesis
How do consumers get energy from producers?
By eating them
What are consumers which eat only plants called?
Herbivores
What are consumers which eat only non-plants called?
Carnivores
What are consumers which eat plants and non-plants called?
Omnivores
The energy of dead producers and consumers is recycled back into creation by what?
Decomposers
Producers are often called what, which is the Greek roots of which literally me “self-feeder.”?
Autotrophs
Consumers and decomposers are often called what?
Heterotrophs
Heterotroph literally means what?
Other feeders
Living organisms are equipped with structures called what, which receive information about their surroundings?
Receptors
Receptors are necessary for a living organism’s survival because God’s creation is always what?
Changing
In asexual reproduction, the characteristics and traits inherited by the offspring (under normal circumstances) are what?
Identical to the parent
In sexual reproduction, under normal circumstances, the offspring’s traits and characteristics are what?
Some mixture to the parent.
When can the offspring possess traits that are incredibly different from those of the parent or parents?
When mutation occurs.
In the scientific method, the scientist starts by ___ the world around him.
Observing
In the scientific method, after observing the world the scientist forms a ___to explain some aspect of how the world functions.
Hypothesis
In the scientific method, after making a hypothesis, the scientist then ___ in an attempt to test his hypothesis.
Collects more data.
In the scientific method, if a large amount of data confirms the hypothesis, it becomes a ___, which is tested with even more data.
Theory
In the scientific method, if a theory continues to be confirmed over several generations, it might become a what?
Scientific Law
Scientists once believed that life could spring from non-living things. This was called what?
Spontaneous generation
Spontaneous generation was refuted in the mid 1800s by a scientist named ___.
Louis Pasteur
The story of how the scientific community believed in spontaneous generation for so long demonstrates that science has what?
Flaws
The newest version of spontaneous generation is called what?
Abiogenesis
What does Abiogensis claim?
that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions.
The groups used in our classification scheme, from largest to smallest are what?
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species
The five kingdoms we use in this course are what?
Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia
A cell with no membrane-bounded organelles is called what?
Prokaryotic
A cell with membrane-bounded organelles is called what?
Eukaryotic cell
Members of kingdom Monera are composed of what kind of cells?
Prokaryotic cells
A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units is called what?
Species
A series of questions that is designed to classify organisms is called a biological ___.
Key
When we call wolves “Canis lupus,” we are using what?
Binomial nomenclature
There are three basic groups in the three-domain system of classification name them.
Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
In the three-domain system of classification, members of kingdom Monera are placed in either one of two groups name them.
Archaea or Bacteria
In the three-domain system of classification, if an organism is not in kingdom Monera it is placed in what group?
Eukarya
A creationist taxonomy scheme that attempts to classify organisms based on the kind of organisms that God made during creation is called what?
Baraminology
Multicellular autotrophs are typically placed in what kingdom?
Plantae
Single-celled creatures made of eukaryotic cells are placed in what kingdom?
Protista
Multicellular consumers are typically placed in what kingdom?
Animalia
Decomposers made of eukaryotic cells are mostly found in what kingdom?
Fungi
Organisms made of prokaryotic cells are found in what kingdom?
Monera
