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Chapter 1 Biology Flashcards

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What is all Around us?

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Biology

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What is Biology?

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The Study of Life

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Biology Provides?

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An exciting breakthrough in culture

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At this time we are?

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Living in the golden age of Biology

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What helps us address environmental issues?

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Ecology

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What 2 things are reshaping psychology and Sociology?

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Neuroscience and Evolutionary Biology

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Name the Classifications/Characteristics of Life?

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Order
Regulation
Growth and Development
Energy Utilization
Response to the Environment
Reproduction
Evolution
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What are the many Levels of Life?

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  1. Biosphere
  2. Ecosystems
  3. Communities
  4. Populations
  5. Organisms
  6. Organ systems and organs
  7. Tissues
  8. Cells
  9. Organelles
  10. Molecules and Atoms
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Each Organism Interacts with?

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The Environment

Non Living and Living things

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Where does interaction between the organism and the environment take place?

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It Takes place with in an ecosystem

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What are the 2 main processes that the dynamic of an ecosystem depend on?

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  1. Cycling of Nutrients

2. Flow of energy

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What are all Organisms Composed of?

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Cells

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What are 2 Major Cell Types?

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  1. Prokaryotic

2. Eukaryotic

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What is Simple and smaller and contains no organelles?

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Prokaryotic

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What is large, more complex and contains organelles?

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Eukaryotic

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Bacteria Cells are what major cell type?

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Prokaryotic

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Solving crimes, and Revealing ancestors are apart of?

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Molecular Biology

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What is the largest in most eukaryotic cells?

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Nucleuis

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All cells use what?

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DNA

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What is DNA?

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The Chemical matter of Genes

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What is the unit of inheritance that transmit information from parents to offsprings?

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Genes

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The Language of DNA contains 4 letters. What are these 4 letters?

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A. G. C. T.

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What is the entire book of genetic instruction, that an organism inherits? What is this called?

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Genome

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What is Diversity?

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The hallmark of life

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How many species are in the diversity of life?

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1.8 Million

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What is the Diversity range?

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10 Million to 100 Million different species

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What is the branch of biology that names and classifies species?

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Taxonomy

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What does taxonomy do?

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It formalizes the hierarchical of organisms

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What are the 3 domains of life?

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  1. Bacteria
  2. Archea
  3. Eukarya
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What 2 domains have more Prokaryotic Cells?

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Bacteria and Archea

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What Kingdoms are apart of The domain Eukarya?

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Kingdom Plantea
Kingdom fungi
Kingdom animilia
Protists (multiple Kingdoms)

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What produces their own sugar and food by photosynthesis?

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Plants

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What is mostly decomposers digesting dead organisms?

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Fungi

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What contains food by eating and digesting other organisms?

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Animals

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What is 1 twig of a branching tree of life extending back over 3 billion years?

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Species

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What species share a more recent common ancestor?

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Brown bears and polar bears

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Who wrote the Orgin of Life and What year was it wrote?

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Darwin wrote it and it was published in 1859

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What 2 main points developed in Darwin’s book?

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  1. Descent with Modification

2. Natural Selection

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What is( the thought that adaptation to the environment and the Origin of new species that was related in a process?

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Galapagos

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Populations seperate by geographic barrier adapt to local environment, what did the species in the population become?

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They became a seperate Species

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What are Darwin’s Observations?

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Obs 1: over production and competition

Obs 2: individual observation

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What was the Conclusion of Darwin’s observation?

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Unequal reproductive Sucess

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What did Darwin call the unequal reproductive Sucess?

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Natural Selection

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What is the product of natural selection?

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Adaptation

44
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What is Selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals by humans called?

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Artificial selection

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What is the mechanism of Evolution?

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Natural Selection

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What is it called when humans do the selecting instead of the environment?

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Inartificial Selection

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Name 1 example of natural selection?

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The Bird Finches on Galapagos Island, there beaks were changing in size depending on the size and shape of available seed

48
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What is the Latin verb of science?

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“To know” or the “way of knowing”

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What is verifiable observation and measurements of data called?

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Discovery Science

50
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What leads to important conclusions based on this type of logic?

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Inductive reasoning

51
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What is the definition of the Scientific Method?

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It’s the formal process of inquiries

52
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What is the key element in the scientific method?

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The Hypothesis

53
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What is it called when there is a proposed explanation for a set of observations?

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Hypothesis

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What is another definition of hypothesis?

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An idea on trail

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What is it called when the reasoning flows from the general to specific?

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Indeduction

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What usually takes the form of prediction about experimental results?

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Deduction

57
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What is natural selection process?

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Population with varied inherited traits

Elimination of individuals with certain traits

Reproduction of the survivors

Then increasing frequency of traits that enhance survival and reproductive Sucess

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What is Theory?

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A theory is a broader scope than a hypnosis that is based more on facts

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