Bio Finals- Basics Flashcards
(22 cards)
Growth
Living things in read in size and number
Biology
Study of life
Regulation
Coordinated response used by an organism to help maintain homeostasis
Respiration
The release of energy from food by oxidation
Synthesis
Combining simple substances to form more complex substances
Homeostasis
The maintenance of a stable internal environment
Nutrition
Taking and processing food materials
Indigestion
Intake of food
Digestion
Breaking down food
Egestion
Removal of undigested food
Excretion
Removal of metabolic wastes (sweat, urine, carbon dioxide)
Reproduction
The ability of living things to produce more of their own kind
Sexual reproduction
Two parents required
Asexual reproduction
One parent required
Transport
Intake and distribution of materials throughout an organism
Viruses
- obligate intercellular parasites
- must use the resource of another living thing to survive
- grow, reproduce, and synthesize
Spontaneous generation
The belief that living things come from non living things
Francesco Redi
- opposed the idea of spontaneous generation
- 1668: conducted an experiment to disprove the belief
Scientific Method
- Observation
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Conclusion
Aristotle
- divided organisms into two groups: animals and plants
- divided animals into 3 groups based on how they moved
Carolus Linnaeus
- classified plants and animals according to their similarities of form
- father or bionomial nomenclature
Dichotomous key
Sequence of steps that allow the identification of a living thing
