Unit 1: Intro to Biology

Question 1

An evoltionary change in an organism that makes it better suited to its environment.

Answer 1

ADAPTION

Question 2

A process in which a liquid is heated to a temperature that kills harmful germs and then cooled quickly.

Answer 2

PASTEURIZATION

Question 3

Getting rid of waste products.

Answer 3

EXCRETION

Question 4

The release of energy by combining oxygen with digested food.

Answer 4

RESPIRATION

Question 5

The non-living parts of any ecosystem.

Answer 5

ABIOTIC

Question 6

The study of life.

Answer 6

BIOLOGY

Question 7

All of the living or once living aspects of an ecosystem.

Answer 7

BIOTIC

Question 8

Water loving: attracts or can be dissolved in water.

Answer 8

HYDROPHILIC

Question 9

The hypothetical process by which living organisms develop from non-living matter.

Answer 9

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION

Question 10

The fact or process of becoming immune, as against a disease.

Answer 10

IMMUNIZATION

Question 11

A change in activity due to stimulus.

Answer 11

RESPONSE

Question 12

The study of microscopic organisms.

Answer 12

MICROBIOLOGY

Question 13

Water repelling or water “fearing”.

Answer 13

HYDROPHOBIC

Question 14

The movement of useful products to all parts of the organism.

Answer 14

CIRCULATION

Question 15

Is something that causes a physiological response.

Answer 15

STIMULUS

Question 16

A small non-living infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells pf other organisms.

Answer 16

VIRUS

Question 17

The branch of science concerned with classification pf organisms.

Answer 17

TAXONOMY

Question 18

Is a single-celled organism that lacks a membrane-bound nucleus.

Answer 18

PROKARYOTE

Question 19

An organism in which the genetic material is organized into a membrane-bound nucleus.

Answer 19

EUKARYOTE

Question 20

A formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts.

Answer 20

BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE