Chapter 1

Question 1

What are the 3 domains?

Answer 1

Eukarya, bacteria, archaea

Question 2

The study of evolutionary relationships

Answer 2

Phylogeny

Question 3

Change in gene frequency over a period of time?

Answer 3

Evolution

Question 4

Smallest group of individuals that share a common ancestor

Answer 4

Phylogenetic Species

Question 5

Hypothesis that represents the possible evolutionary history of a group of organisms

Answer 5

Phylogenetic tree

Question 6

Phylogenetic tree with the fewest evolutionary transitions is most likely correct

Answer 6

Maximum parsimony

Question 7

Fewer evolutionary transitions between 2 groups

Answer 7

Sister groups

Question 8

New properties that arise with each step upward in the hierarchy of life

Answer 8

Emergent properties

Question 9

What is level of biological organization?

Answer 9

Atoms, molecules, cells, organelles, tissues, organs, organ system, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

Question 10

All individuals in a specified area

Answer 10

Population

Question 11

Array of organisms in an ecosystem

Answer 11

Communities

Question 12

Living and nonliving things in a particular area

Answer 12

Ecosystems

Question 13

Consists of all life on earth and all places where life exists

Answer 13

Biosphere

Question 14

What are the 2 forms of cells?

Answer 14

Eukaryotic and prokaryotic

Question 15

Has a membrane closed nucleus and organelles, includes protists, plant,s animals, fungi

Answer 15

Eukaryotic

Question 16

Lacks a membrane closed nucleus and organelles, includes bacteria and archaea

Answer 16

Prokaryotic

Question 17

Provide blueprints for making proteins, control protein production

Answer 17

Genes

Question 18

Process of information encoded in DNA directs the synthesis of proteins

Answer 18

Gene expression

Question 19

Entire library of genetic instructions that an organism inherits

Answer 19

Genome

Question 20

Study of whole sets of genes and their interactions within a species

Answer 20

Genomics

Question 21

An end product that speeds up its own production

Answer 21

Positive feedback

Question 22

Response reduces the initial stimulus

Answer 22

Negative feedback

Question 23

Process in which individuals that have certain traits tend to survive at high rates

Answer 23

Natural selection

Question 24

Derive generalizations from observations

Answer 24

Inductive reasoning

Question 25

Specific results are predicted from a general premise

Answer 25

Deductive reasoning

Question 26

H+ ions are produced

Answer 26

Acidic

Question 27

OH- ions are produced

Answer 27

Basic

Question 28

Why is it more accurate to classify things into three domains vs eukaryotic/prokaryotic?

Answer 28

Ex. Bacteria and archaea are both prokaryotic but share different characteristics

Question 29

Individuals that have certain traits inherited traits that tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits

Answer 29

Natural selection

Question 30

What are the 5 content topics?

Answer 30

Molecules, cells, energetics, heredity, gene expression