Test 1 Flashcards by Rob Slagle

Is structure and function correlated, if yes give an example.

Yes it is and natural selection is a prime example of this because of diversity of trains that are in one animal that stemmed from a common ancestor.

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Are cells the basic unit of structure?

Yes

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What do Eukaryotic cells have that prokaryotic do not and why?

A membrane and because it allows the organism to have l structure for emergent properties.

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What is allows life to continue?

The flow of heritable information from parent to off spring.

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What is negative feed back.

Blocks the enzyme from being produced.

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What is positive feedback?

Can stimulate production of an enzyme.

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What the 6 categories of diversity and put prokaryotic first, than eukaryotic, and finally the “catch all”

Bacteria
Protokayotic

Plantae
Fungi
Animallia

Protista

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What dose 
Damn
King
Philip
Came 
Over 
From 
Germany 
Saturday

Mean?

Domain 
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family 
Genus
Species

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W. Henning coined the phrase cladistics or it could be called?

Evolutionary diversity

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What do cladogram’s represent?

They represent group layers by each layer.

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What does evolution mean?

The processes of diversifying life on earth.

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Biology means?

Study of life.

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Energy processing means?

To gain energy. Like eating

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How does growth and development work?

Inherited information carried by genes controlling the pattern of growth and development of organisms.

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What does response to the environment mean?

An action caused by the stimuli from the environment.

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Reproduction means?

Make a copy.

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Regulation means,

Regulation or monitoring of body functions like blood flow or temperature?

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What does evolution adaptation mean?

Traits that stay with a species that help them survive.

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Order means?

Structure/organization of an organism.

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Put in order population, ecosystem, communities, biosphere, and organisms.

BECPO or
Biosphere
Ecosystem
Communities
Population
Organisms

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Emergent properties means?

Arrangements and integration of party’s as complexity increases.

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System biology means?

Exploration of a biological system by analyzing the interaction among its parts.

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DNA is?

Genetic material

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What are genes?

Each section of DNA of the chromosomes or heredity.

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What is gene expression is?

Manifestation of gene's.

Genome is?

Library of genetic information and they are used as blueprints or instructions.

Genomics is?

Study of whole sets of genes.

Bioinformatics is?

Using computational tools to store, organize, analyze the data.

Consumers are?

Organisms like animals that feed on producers and other consumers.

Organisms always have a constant interaction with the environment and the categories that they can fall into are?

Give/give, take/take, give/take, take/give.

Feedback regulation is?

A product of a process regulates that very process.

The core theme of biology is?

Evolution.

What are the 6 themes of biology?

Organization, information, energy, matter, interaction, and evolution.

Does it matter if a cell is prokaryotic or eukaryotic for them to produce photosynthesis?

Succession of ancestors that differ from then is called?

Descent with modification.

Strong will survive or?

Natural selection.

Descent from a common ancestor is called?

Common descent

Inductive reasoning means?

Strong evidence for the truth of the conclusion.

Hypothesis is?

A tentative answer to a well framed question.

Deductive reasoning is?

Conclusion based on assumed truths (if then)

Independent variables?

The variable that is manipulated by the scientist.

Theory is?

Broader in scope than a hypothesis.

What did scoops teach?

Evolutionary thought.

Discovery science is?

Observation.

Purple gram stain means?

Positive and peptidoglycan layer is on top of the plasma membrane.

Pink gram stain means?

Negative and peptidoglycan layer is between the membrane.

Taxis means?

To move towards.

Binary fusion means?

Asexual and prokaryotic.

Genetic recombination means?

Sex, mutation, transformation from envorment to bacteria, and conjection from bacteria to bacteria or sex

Autotroph means?

Make own source of nourishment.

Heterotroph means?

Dependent on a complex organic substance for nutrition.

Chemo Heterotrophs means?

Obtains its energy from the oxidation of organic compound.

Lactobacillus acidophilus means?

Normal inhabitants of digestive tract. This is a chemo hetoteoph.

Nitrogen fixation means?

Atmospheric nitrogen available. Prokaryotes are able to use most nitrogen sources.

Obligate means?

Dependent on it.

Obligate aerobes means?

Can live with oxygen.

Facultative anaerobes means?

Can live or with out oxygen.

Obligate anaerobe means?

Can not grow in the presents of oxygen.

Exotoxins means?

Protein toxin formed excreted by the bacterial cell.

Analogues structure means?

Common ancestor but structure resembles other species.

Homologous structure means?

Structure derived from a common ancestor.

What is a protist?

Predecessor to eukaryotic, unicellular or multicellular, also eukaryotic plants, animals, and fungi.

One cell vs multi cells, witch has to do more work?

Same amount of work

Photoautotrophs means

Light self making food

Sudeopods are

Fake feet

Mixotrophs?

Protise that can be hetorph or phototroph.