T Flashcards
Growth is always accompanied by
development
The creation of a new individual from an existing one called____ is one characteristic common to all living things.
reproduction
The ability of organisms to cope up with the changing environment is called ___
adaptability
The ability to react to stimuli in the environment is called
Responsiveness
One of the major fields in ZOOLOGY that deals with the relationships of organisms with the environment
Ecology
Mode of reproduction that involves 2 sexes.
Sexual
When the level of sugar in the blood is too high, the excess sugar is stored in the muscle to be used later as needed. Which characteristics of life is best described here?
Use of energy
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of all living things?
ability to adapt to changes in environment ability to move
growth and development
ability to reproduce
response to the environment
ability to move
Fire can technically reproduce. However, it is not considered a living thing because ….
Fire does not contain DNA
A baby cries when a doctor injects a vaccine. What characteristic of life is manifested?
responsiveness
Which is TRUE about hypothesis?
it provides a suggested solution
it is a proposed explanation
All of the given choices
it is very tentative
it is a prediction
All of the given choices
Sports and physical therapists during the biomechanics of how joints, muscles, and bones move during athletic activity. What branch of science do they study?
Anatomy and physiology
Which is NOT true for an objective observation?
it is based on one’s interpretations
Which of the following characteristics of living things best explains why humans sweat when they get hot?
maintaining a stable internal environment
Mammalogy falls under the larger branch of Biology called
Zoology
Which of the following characteristics of living things best explains why birds in temperate regions fly south for the winter?
Living things respond to their environment.
Once you have reproduced results and performed the replicates, what are you going to do?
Analyse the data and draw conclusions
What skill is a scientist using when she listens to the sounds that whales make?
Making observations
In an experiment, the ____group is treated the same as the experimental group except that the variable being tested is omitted.
control
A scientist studying the life cycle of butterflies is a specialist in the field of
Entomology
Why do we need to have experimental controls?
Reduce variability in the results
Ensure the biological variability will not influence the results
Make the experiment reproducible
Ensure that changes in the dependent variable depend on the independent variable
Ensure that changes in the dependent variable depend on the independent variable
Plants have an unlimited type of growth as compared with the limited type of growth in animals.
True
Animals are motile while most plants are stationary
True
Sexual reproduction produces a population of organisms with variable genes that can increase higher chance of survival in a constantly changing environment.
True
All living things are made up of cells.
True
Gathering of data is necessary to provide bases for the hypothesis to be formulated.
False
All living things are breathing.
False
All living things move.
False
The first step in the scientific method is to state the problem clearly & concisely.
True
Animals respond faster to stimuli than plants.
True
Plants are heterotrophs while animals are autoptrophs.
False
Since the problem has been stated in a scientific method, then the hypothesis can be formulated immediately.
False
Growth is always manifested by an increase in the size of an organism.
False
The scientific method is always a linear process.
False
