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Module #1 Review Questions Flashcards

1
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All life forms contain deoxyribonucleic acid which is called what?

A

DNA

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2
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All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from their surroundings and convert it into what?

A

Energy that sustain them

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3
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All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and do what?

A

Respond to their changes

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4
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All life forms have the ability to?

A

Reproduce

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5
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DNA provides the information necessary to take a bunch of lifeless chemicals and turn them into what?

A

An ordered, living system

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6
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What can be split into two categories of anabolism and catabolism?

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Metabolism

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7
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Metabolism can be split into two categories: which category involves using energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures?

A

Anabolism

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8
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Metabolism can be split into two categories: which one is the breaking down of chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks?

A

Catabolism

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9
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The vast majority of energy that sustains life comes from what?

A

The sun

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10
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Green plants use that energy to make food for themselves via a process called what?

A

Photosynthesis

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11
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How do consumers get energy from producers?

A

By eating them

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12
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What are consumers which eat only plants called?

A

Herbivores

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13
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What are consumers which eat only non-plants called?

A

Carnivores

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14
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What are consumers which eat plants and non-plants called?

A

Omnivores

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15
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The energy of dead producers and consumers is recycled back into creation by what?

A

Decomposers

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16
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Producers are often called what, which is the Greek roots of which literally me “self-feeder.”?

A

Autotrophs

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17
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Consumers and decomposers are often called what?

A

Heterotrophs

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18
Q

Heterotroph literally means what?

A

Other feeders

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19
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Living organisms are equipped with structures called what, which receive information about their surroundings?

A

Receptors

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20
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Receptors are necessary for a living organism’s survival because God’s creation is always what?

A

Changing

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21
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In asexual reproduction, the characteristics and traits inherited by the offspring (under normal circumstances) are what?

A

Identical to the parent

22
Q

In sexual reproduction, under normal circumstances, the offspring’s traits and characteristics are what?

A

Some mixture to the parent.

23
Q

When can the offspring possess traits that are incredibly different from those of the parent or parents?

A

When mutation occurs.

24
Q

In the scientific method, the scientist starts by ___ the world around him.

A

Observing

25
Q

In the scientific method, after observing the world the scientist forms a ___to explain some aspect of how the world functions.

A

Hypothesis

26
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In the scientific method, after making a hypothesis, the scientist then ___ in an attempt to test his hypothesis.

A

Collects more data.

27
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In the scientific method, if a large amount of data confirms the hypothesis, it becomes a ___, which is tested with even more data.

A

Theory

28
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In the scientific method, if a theory continues to be confirmed over several generations, it might become a what?

A

Scientific Law

29
Q

Scientists once believed that life could spring from non-living things. This was called what?

A

Spontaneous generation

30
Q

Spontaneous generation was refuted in the mid 1800s by a scientist named ___.

A

Louis Pasteur

31
Q

The story of how the scientific community believed in spontaneous generation for so long demonstrates that science has what?

A

Flaws

32
Q

The newest version of spontaneous generation is called what?

A

Abiogenesis

33
Q

What does Abiogensis claim?

A

that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions.

34
Q

The groups used in our classification scheme, from largest to smallest are what?

A

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species

35
Q

The five kingdoms we use in this course are what?

A

Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia

36
Q

A cell with no membrane-bounded organelles is called what?

A

Prokaryotic

37
Q

A cell with membrane-bounded organelles is called what?

A

Eukaryotic cell

38
Q

Members of kingdom Monera are composed of what kind of cells?

A

Prokaryotic cells

39
Q

A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units is called what?

A

Species

40
Q

A series of questions that is designed to classify organisms is called a biological ___.

A

Key

41
Q

When we call wolves “Canis lupus,” we are using what?

A

Binomial nomenclature

42
Q

There are three basic groups in the three-domain system of classification name them.

A

Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya

43
Q

In the three-domain system of classification, members of kingdom Monera are placed in either one of two groups name them.

A

Archaea or Bacteria

44
Q

In the three-domain system of classification, if an organism is not in kingdom Monera it is placed in what group?

A

Eukarya

45
Q

A creationist taxonomy scheme that attempts to classify organisms based on the kind of organisms that God made during creation is called what?

A

Baraminology

46
Q

Multicellular autotrophs are typically placed in what kingdom?

A

Plantae

47
Q

Single-celled creatures made of eukaryotic cells are placed in what kingdom?

A

Protista

48
Q

Multicellular consumers are typically placed in what kingdom?

A

Animalia

49
Q

Decomposers made of eukaryotic cells are mostly found in what kingdom?

A

Fungi

50
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Organisms made of prokaryotic cells are found in what kingdom?

A

Monera

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