Unit 1 - Cells

Question 1

What is the term for the genetic information that encodes for a protein?

Answer 1

Gene

Question 2

What is the primary way which energy leaves your body?

Answer 2

Heat

Question 3

What is the key difference between how energy and matter move in ecosystems?

Answer 3

Energy moves through an ecosystem (entering & exiting). Matter is recycled within an ecosystem.

Question 4

What is the smallest unit that can display all of the characteristics of life?

Answer 4

Cell

Question 5

What are functional components of cells, such as the nucleus that houses DNA?

Answer 5

Organelles

Question 6

What are tissues?

Answer 6

Each organ is made up of several different tissues. A tissue consists of a group of similar cells performing a specific function.

Question 7

Includes all life and the places where life exists.

Answer 7

Biosphere

Question 8

Consists of all living organisms in a particular area and all of the onliving components of the environment with which life interacts, such as: soil, water, and light.

Answer 8

Ecosystems

Question 9

All organisms in an ecosystem (such as the iguanas, crabs, seaweed, and even bacteria). Collectively together are called what.

Answer 9

Communities

Question 10

Within communities are groups of interacting individuals of one species. Such as a group of iguanas in a community.

Answer 10

Population

Question 11

An individual living thing.

Answer 11

Organism

Question 12

What does an organisms body consist of?

Answer 12

Organ system and Organs.

Question 13

What is the modern term for what Darwin called “descent with modification”?

Answer 13

Evolution

Question 14

What mechanism did Darwin propose for evolution? What three-word phrase summarizes this mechanism?

Answer 14

Natural selection, unequal reproductive success

Question 15

What are the series of steps in the scientific study of life that can lead to discovery.

Answer 15

EXPLORATION.
Observation.
Question.
Hypothesis.
Prediction.
Experiment.
TESTING
Hypothesis. (Revise and repeat)

Question 16

Which is not a characteristic of all living organisms?

A. Growth and Development
B. Composed of multiple cells.
C. Complex yet organized.
D. Uses energy.

Answer 16

B. some living organisms are composed of a single cell.

Question 17

Place the following levels of biological organization in order from smallest to largest: atom, biosphere, cell, ecosystem, molecule, organ, organism, population, tissue

Answer 17

atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organism, population, ecosystem, biosphere