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?
1.8 Million
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What is the Diversity range?
10 Million to 100 Million different species
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What is the branch of biology that names and classifies species?
Taxonomy
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What does taxonomy do?
It formalizes the hierarchical of organisms
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What are the 3 domains of life?
1. Bacteria 2. Archea 3. Eukarya
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What 2 domains have more Prokaryotic Cells?
Bacteria and Archea
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What Kingdoms are apart of The domain Eukarya?
Kingdom Plantea Kingdom fungi Kingdom animilia Protists (multiple Kingdoms)
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What produces their own sugar and food by photosynthesis?
Plants
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What is mostly decomposers digesting dead organisms?
Fungi
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What contains food by eating and digesting other organisms?
Animals
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What is 1 twig of a branching tree of life extending back over 3 billion years?
Species
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What species share a more recent common ancestor?
Brown bears and polar bears
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Who wrote the Orgin of Life and What year was it wrote?
Darwin wrote it and it was published in 1859
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What 2 main points developed in Darwin's book?
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?
Galapagos
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Populations seperate by geographic barrier adapt to local environment, what did the species in the population become?
They became a seperate Species
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What are Darwin's Observations?
Obs 1: over production and competition | Obs 2: individual observation
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What was the Conclusion of Darwin's observation?
Unequal reproductive Sucess
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What did Darwin call the unequal reproductive Sucess?
Natural Selection
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What is the product of natural selection?
Adaptation
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What is Selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals by humans called?
Artificial selection
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What is the mechanism of Evolution?
Natural Selection
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What is it called when humans do the selecting instead of the environment?
Inartificial Selection
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Name 1 example of natural selection?
The Bird Finches on Galapagos Island, there beaks were changing in size depending on the size and shape of available seed
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What is the Latin verb of science?
"To know" or the "way of knowing"
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What is verifiable observation and measurements of data called?
Discovery Science
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What leads to important conclusions based on this type of logic?
Inductive reasoning
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What is the definition of the Scientific Method?
It's the formal process of inquiries
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What is the key element in the scientific method?
The Hypothesis
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What is it called when there is a proposed explanation for a set of observations?
Hypothesis
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What is another definition of hypothesis?
An idea on trail
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What is it called when the reasoning flows from the general to specific?
Indeduction
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What usually takes the form of prediction about experimental results?
Deduction
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What is natural selection process?
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?
A theory is a broader scope than a hypnosis that is based more on facts