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Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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what is biology

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the scientific study of life

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2
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what are some properties of life

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order, evolutionary adaptation, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, response to the environment, and reproduction

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what are the levels of biological organization (biggest to smallest)

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biosphere>ecosystems>communities>populations>organisms>organs>tissues>cells>organelles>molecules

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what is the biosphere

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consists of all life on earth and all the places where life exists; most regions of land, most bodies of water, the atmosphere to an altitude of several kilometers, and even sediments far below the ocean floor

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what is an ecosystem

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consists of all the living things in a particular area, along with all the nonliving components of the environment with which life interacts

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4
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what is a community

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the array of organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem

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what is a population

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a population consists of all the individuals of a species living within the bounds of a specific area that interbreed with one another

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what is an organism

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individual living things

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what are organs

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a body part made up of multiple tissues and has specific functions in the body

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what are tissues

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tissues are groups of cells that work together performing a specialized function

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what are cells

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the cell is life’s fundamental unit of structure and function

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10
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what are organelles

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the various functional components present in cells

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what are molecules

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a molecule is a chemical structure consisting of two or more units called atoms

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12
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what are emergent properties

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novel properties that emerge at each level

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what is systems biology

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the exploration of a biological system by analyzing the interactions among its parts

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what is a eukaryotic cell

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cell that contains membrane enclosed organelles; DNA containing nucleus

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what is a prokaryotic cell

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a prokaryotic cell is a cell that doesn’t have membrane enclosed organelles, and lacks a nucleus; smaller than eukaryotic cells

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Full name of DNA

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deoxyribonucleic acid

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17
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what are genes

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basic units of heredity; encode the information necessary to build all of the molecules synthesized within a cell, which in turn establish that cell’s identity and function

18
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what is gene expression

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entire by process by which the information in a gene directs the manufacture of a cellular product

19
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what is a genome

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the entire “library” of genetic instructions that an organism inherits

20
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what is genomics

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when researchers study whole sets of genes in one or more species

21
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what is proteomics

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the study of sets of proteins and their properties

22
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what is a proteome

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entire set of proteins expressed by a given cell, tissue, or organism

23
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what are bioinformatics

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the use of computational tools to store, organize, and analyze the huge volume of data that results from high throughput methods

24
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what are producers

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photosynthetic organisms that produce food from the sun

25
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what are consumers

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consumers are organisms that feed on other organisms or their remains

26
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what is feedback regulation

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feedback regulation is the output or product of a process that regulates that very process

27
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what is climate change

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a directional change to the global climate that lasts for three decades or more

28
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what is evolution

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a process of biological change in which species accumulate differences from their ancestors as they adapt to different environments over time

29
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what are the three domains?

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domain bacteria, domain archaea and domain eukarya

30
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what organisms fall under bacteria and archaea

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single celled organisms

31
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what organisms are in eukarya

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all the eukaryotes, four subgroups: kingdom plantae, kingdom fungi, kingdom animalia, and the protists

32
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what is kingdom plantae

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kingdom plantae consists of multicellular eukaryotes that carry out photosynthesis, the conversion of light energy to the chemical energy in food. most plant species live on land,

33
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what is kingdom fungi

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kingdom fungi is characterized in part by the nutritional mode of its members (such as this mushroom) which absorb nutrients from outside their bodies

34
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what is kingdom animalia

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kingdom animalia consists of multicellular eukaryotes that ingest other organisms

35
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what is natural selection

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natural selection is the mechanism of evolutionary adaptation as the natural environment consistently selects for the propagation of certain traits among naturally occurring variant traits in the population

36
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what is inquiry

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inquiry is the search for information and the explanations of natural phenomena

37
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what is data?

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recorded observations

38
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what is inductive reasoning

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collecting and analyzing observations can lead to important conclusions

39
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what is a hypothesis

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an explanation based on observations and assumptions that leads to a testable prediction

40
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what is an experiement

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a scientific test, carried out under controlled conditions

41
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what is deductive reasoning?

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deductive reasoning involves logic that flows in the opposite direction: from general to specific

42
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what is an independent variable

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the variable being manipulated by researchers

43
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what is a dependent variable

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the factor being measured that is predicted to be affected by the independent variable

44
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what is a theory

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more broad than hypothesis, more general, and more supported by a much greater body of evidence

45
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what is a model organism

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a species that is easy to grow in the lab and lends itself particularly well to questions being investigated

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