Chapter 1

Question 1

Gene of choice is manipulated and prepared in the laboratory
Transgene is injected into the egg of an animal
Egg is implanted into surrogate

Answer 1

Transgenic pharming

Question 2

What are the seven properties of life?

Answer 2

1. Cells and organization
2. Energy processing
3. Response to environmental changes
4. Regulation and homeostasis
5. Growth and development
6. Reproduction
7. Evolutionary adaptation

Question 3

What’s the fundamental unit of life?

Answer 3

Cells!

Question 4

Ability to do work?

Answer 4

Energy

Question 5

Autotrophs vs. heterotrophs?

Answer 5

Autotrophs can produce their own food from substances available in their surroundings using light or chemical energy.
Heterotrophs cannot synthesize their own food and rely on other organisms both plants and animals for nutrition

Question 6

How does growth happen?

Answer 6

Mitosis

Question 7

What happens when an organism develops?

Answer 7

Structures start to arise from your genes.

Question 8

What allows for reproduction?

Answer 8

Gametes- sex or reproductive, cell containing only one set of dissimilar chromosomes or half the genetic material necessary to form a complete organism

Question 9

Why do living things reproduce?

Answer 9

To pass genes on

Question 10

What are the five unifying themes all life has in common?

Answer 10

Organization 
Information 
Energy and matter
Interactions 
Evolution

Question 11

Levels of biological organization

Answer 11

1. atoms
2. molecules (2 or more atoms) and macromolecules
3. Organelles (only eukaryotes)
4. Cells
5. Tissues
6. Organs
7. Organisms
8. Population
9. Community
10. Ecosystem
11. Biosphere

Question 12

Population

Answer 12

Same species at same location or area

Question 13

What do ribosomes make?

Answer 13

Proteins

Question 14

What are the the two types of cells?

Answer 14

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic (with membrane bound nucleus)

Question 15

What is the basis for all reproduction, growth, and repair?

Answer 15

Mitosis

Meiosis- for reproduction

Question 16

What is genome?

Answer 16

All chromosomes together

Question 17

Genes are the units of________

Answer 17

Inheritance

Question 18

What do genes encode?

Answer 18

Proteins!

Question 19

Half the number of chromosomes?

Two sets of chromosomes?

Answer 19

Haploid, diploid

Question 20

________ controls the development and maintenance of organisms

Answer 20

DNA

Question 21

What accounts for the unity and diversity of life?

Answer 21

Evolution

Question 22

Living Organisms are modified descendants of ________ _________

Answer 22

Common ancestor

Question 23

Traits that are different than other organisms is evidence of ________ _______

Answer 23

Natural selection

Question 24

• founder of taxonomy
• did not imply evolutionary kinship
• binomial nomenclature
• he just looked at the appearance to classify

Answer 24

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 25

“Dear King Philip Came Over for green soup”

Answer 25

``` Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species ```

Question 26

The three domains of life?

Answer 26

- bacteria (prokaryotes) - archaea (prokaryotes) - eukarya (eukaryotes)

Question 27

What three multicellular kingdoms does the domain Eukarya include?

Answer 27

Pants, fungi, and animals

Question 28

What is the branch if biology that names and classifies species into a hierarchical order?

Answer 28

Taxonomy

Question 29

What are the 8 taxonomic groups used to group species?

Answer 29

``` (Think Dear King Phillip Came Over For Green Soup) Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species ```

Question 30

With evolution as the core theme of biology, we can explain traits shared by organisms as evidence of ___________ and traits that differ amount organisms as evidence of __________.

Answer 30

descent from a common ancestor; adaptation through natural selection

Question 31

A hypothesis bust be _________ and _________.

Answer 31

Testable, falsifiable

Question 32

Five stages of the scientific method?

Answer 32

1. Observations 2. Hypothesis (useful hypothesis is testable) 3. Experimentation 4. Data is gathered and analyzed 5. Form a conclusion and the hypothesis is either accepted or rejected

Question 33

In science, observations and experiments but be___________.

Answer 33

Repeatable

Question 34

How is a theory different than a hypothesis?

Answer 34

- broader in scope than a hypothesis - general and can lead to a new testable hypotheses - supporter by a large body of evidence

Question 35

Is a theory and a hypnosis considered the same thing?

Answer 35

No

Question 36

A hypothesis can be proven true?

Answer 36

False