UNIT 1 Flashcards
What is life?
It’s an organized unit capable of metabolism, reproduction and evolution.
What is metabolism?
It’s the chemical reactions in the body’s cells that change food into energy.
What is reproduction?
Its a process and which an individual cell/ organism make new cells/ organisms
What is evolution?
It is how living things change over time and how new species develop.
Cell metabolism is….?
its total chemical activity, and consists of thousands of individual chemical reactions.
These reactions in the cell/organisms must be ….?
…. coordinated for a cell/organism to function.
What provides control and coordination in the cell?
Genes
What is ATP?
It provides energy to the cell.
What is anabolism?
It grows and builds.
What is catabolism?
It breaks down.
What produces less heat (anabolism or catabolism)?
Anabolism since building up takes less energy then breaking down.
What is the cycle of the cell (broad)?
Larger molecules go through catabolism which produces small molecules which as well go through anabolism and it restarts.
What is homeostasis?
Its the maintenance of a stable internal condition.
The internal environment of a cell/organism must remain …what?
….within a given range of physical and chemical conditions for that cell/organism to remain healthy.
What is reproduction?
Its a process by which an individual cell/organism makes a new individual cell/organism
What is a major characteristic of life (with variation)?
Reproduction
What leads to evolution?
The combination of reproduction and errors in the duplication of the genetic material.
Variations in the physical environnement helps with what?
Drive the diversification of life
What is an adaptation?
Characteristic that allows a organism to adapt to its environnement.
What is sexual reproduction?
The combining of genetic information from two cells
How does sex increase the rate of evolution?
- produce genetically variable offsprings
- offspring made through sexual reproduction have an advantage over asexual re production
Darwin called the differential survival and reproductive success of individuals what?
natural selection
life arose from what?
non-life
what led to the appearance of life about 4 billion years ago?
Chemical evolution