POB ch 1

Question 1

emergent properties ?

Answer 1

a property that the complex system has but the individual systems do not; sum is greater than its parts
Ex: Nacl is salty, is sodium? is chlorine?

Question 2

characteristics of living things??

Answer 2

• are organized
• acquire materials and energy
• ability to reproduce and develop (genes, development)
• respond to stimuli (behavior)
• maintains homeostasis
• can adapt to their environment

Question 3

how is lie organized? biggest to smallest

Answer 3

biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organisms, organ system, organ, tissue, cell, molecule, atom
(big elephants can pour our orange juice today cause mom asked)

Question 4

what are the 3 domains?

Answer 4

domain Archaea (procaryote) 
domain Bacteria (procaryote) 
domain Eukarya (eukaryote) ((protista, fungi, plantae, animalia)

Question 5

Law/ Principle

Answer 5

a description of a pattern in nature (law of gravity )

Question 6

Theory

Answer 6

explanation as to why a patter (law) exists (what causes gravity?) // explains why a law would happen

Question 7

inductive reasoning

Answer 7

makes generalizations based on collecting and analyzing a large number of specific observations// creative thinking plus isolated facts

Question 8

deductive reasoning

Answer 8

flows from general premises to predictive and specific results (humans are organisms, therefore they are made of cells) // if, then logic

Question 9

null hypothesis

Answer 9

no difference expected

Question 10

alt hypothesis

Answer 10

difference expected

Question 11

replicates

Answer 11

way to control confounding variables

Question 12

tools of science

Answer 12

publicly understandable, self correcting, predictive

Question 13

metabolism

Answer 13

term used to describe all of the chemical reactions that occur in a cell

Question 14

viruses

Answer 14

acellular, obligate parasite, not living!!

Question 15

structure

Answer 15

capsid, envelope, nucleic acid core

Question 16

what characteristics do viruses have

Answer 16

-organized, require materials and energy, respond to stimuli, adapt
-flu virus!!!!!
(reproduce and develop, only with host)

Question 17

light microscope

Answer 17

compound and disseting

Question 18

electron microscope

Answer 18

scanning and transmitting