Chapter 1

Question 1

All things that are considered to have LIFE have

Answer 1

Order
Reproduction 
Growth and development
Energy processing
Regulation
Response to the environment 
Evolutionary adaptation

Question 2

Life’s hierarchy of organization

Answer 2

Biosphere
Ecosystem 
Community
Population
Organism
Organ system
Organ
Tissue
Cell
Organelle
Molecules

Question 3

Food chain

Answer 3

A single line of organisms where each is preceded by something that it consumed and then followed by something that consumes it

Question 4

Good web

Answer 4

Feeding interactions between organisms. They share resources and compete

Question 5

Cells

Answer 5

Structural and functional units of life

Question 6

Prokaryotic cells

Answer 6

Cells that were around before earth was inhabited. They are small and simple with no nucleus

Eg: bacteria,archaea,monera

Question 7

Eukaryotic cells

Answer 7

Cells that evolved after prokaryotes and has a nucleus

Eg: plants, yeast,fungi, and animals

Question 8

DNA

Answer 8

DNA is the genetic material of cells.

Question 9

Genes

Answer 9

The units of inheritance

Question 10

3 domains

Answer 10

Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya

Question 11

Evolution

Answer 11

The process of change that has transformed life on earth from its earliest beginnings to the diversity of organisms living today

Question 12

Descents of modification

Answer 12

Species living together today arose from a successor of ancestors that differed from them

Question 13

Natural selection

Answer 13

A mechanism for evolution

Question 14

The order of classification of organisms

Answer 14

Domain
Kingdom
Phyla 
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Question 15

Scientific method

Answer 15

A step by step method for testing ideas with observation

Question 16

List of the scientific method

Answer 16

Observation
Questions
Hypothesis
Predictions
Test 
Results

Question 17

Qualitative observation

Answer 17

Observation based on description eg: color

Question 18

Quantitative observation

Answer 18

Observation based on number oval measurements that may be organized into tables and graphs eg: temperature

Question 19

Inductive reasoning

Answer 19

Making observations then coming to conclusions

Question 20

Deductive reasoning

Answer 20

A proposed explanation of what will happen

Question 21

Control group

Answer 21

the group that doesn’t receive the variable being tested

Question 22

Independent variable

Answer 22

What is being manipulated or tested (X axis)

Question 23

Dependent variable

Answer 23

Depends on what’s being manipulated (y axis)

Question 24

Biology

Answer 24

The scientific study of life