Unifying Themes In Biology

Question 1

Living things can move from one place to another by walking, flying, swimming, gliding or jumping

Answer 1

Motility/Locomotion

Question 2

Living things move for what reasons

Answer 2

Food searching, process of reproduction and respond to environmental changes

Question 3

Living things need energy and raw materials to…

Answer 3

Perform vital activities like growth, movement and reproduction

Question 4

Capturing light energy by plants and converting it to chemical energy (food)

Answer 4

Photosynthesis

Question 5

Process wherein energy is released by breaking down the food substances

Answer 5

Cellular respiration

Question 6

All the chemical processes that occur in the cells of all organisms

Answer 6

Metabolism

Question 7

To power the organism’s life processes and provide them with raw materials to aid some processes which includes nutrient uptake, nutrient processing, excretion, respiration and photosynthesis, living things must…

Answer 7

Metabolize

Question 8

Maintenance of body’s internal environment

Answer 8

Homeostasis

Question 9

Maintain blood sugar level

Answer 9

Glucagon and insulin

Question 10

Regulates temperature in the body

Answer 10

Hypothalamus

Question 11

Increase in size and volume by converting food to become a part of body cells

Answer 11

Growth

Question 12

Growth from within the cells

Answer 12

Intussusception

Question 13

Complex process of cell differentiation and formation of new organs

Answer 13

Organogenesis

Question 14

A series of changes in form and function that accompanies growth

Answer 14

Development

Question 15

Development from head to toe

Answer 15

Cephalo caultal development

Question 16

Development starting in the center and moving away from the body

Answer 16

Proximo distal development

Question 17

Respond to conditions/changes in their environment

Answer 17

Sensitivity/irritability

Question 18

Any condition or change in the environment that causes a response or tropism

Answer 18

Stimulus

Question 19

Any inherited form, structure, function or behavior that promotes the likelihood of a species survival

Answer 19

Adaptations

Question 20

Change in characteristics of group of organisms (population) over time

Answer 20

Evolution

Question 21

Gradual or rapid change in body structure or behavior to be better suited and to survive in a new environment

Answer 21

Evolutionary adaptation

Question 22

Capable of interbreeding and therefore, evolution

Answer 22

Population

Question 23

Genetic information (DNA) is passed on from one generation to another as organisms produce offspring that resemble their parents

Answer 23

Reproduction

Question 24

Requires only one parents and produces and offspring identical to the parent (ex. Binary fission in bacteria, budding in hydras)

Answer 24

Asexual reproduction

Question 25

Requires two parents and produces offspring that are unidentical to the parent

Answer 25

Sexual reproduction

Question 26

Three domains of the diversity of life

Answer 26

Bacteria, archaea and eukarya

Question 27

Virus have no DNA, but instead they have...

Answer 27

RNA (which is why they are not considered living things)

Question 28

Follow hierarchical level of biological organization each with emergent properties that arise through the interactions among smaller parts that alone do no exhibit such properties

Answer 28

Living things display order/organization

Question 29

Smallest and most fundamental unit of matter; nucleus surrounded by electrons

Answer 29

Atom

Question 30

Chemical structure consisting of at least two atoms held together by one/more chemical bonds

Answer 30

Molecules

Question 31

Proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids

Answer 31

Biomolecules

Question 32

Aggregates of biomolecules surrounded by membranes; small structures that exist within the cells; ex. Mitochondria, chloroplasts

Answer 32

Organelles

Question 33

Smallest fundamental unit of structure and function in living organisms

Answer 33

Cell

Question 34

Groups of similar cells carrying out similar or related functions

Answer 34

Tissue

Question 35

Collections of tissues grouped together to perform a common function

Answer 35

Organs

Question 36

Consists of functionally related organs

Answer 36

Organ system

Question 37

Individual living entities

Answer 37

Organism

Question 38

Same species/organisms living within a specific area

Answer 38

Population

Question 39

Different species/organisms living within a specific area

Answer 39

Community

Question 40

All living things in a particular area together with the non-living parts of that environment

Answer 40

Ecosystem

Question 41

Collection of all ecosystems and represents the zone of life on earth; land, water and even the atmosphere to a certain extent

Answer 41

Biosphere