Chapter 1- The Study of Life

Question 1

Metabolism

Answer 1

How much you can eat without getting fat // sum total of all processes in an organism that convert energy & matter from outside sources & use that energy & matter to sustain the organisms life functions

Question 2

Anabolism

Answer 2

Total of all processes in an organism which use energy to make structures necessary for life

Question 3

Catabolism

Answer 3

All the processes in an organism that break down chemicals to make energy

Question 4

Photosynthesis

Answer 4

Plants that get energy from sunlight to convert to food

Question 5

Herbivores

Answer 5

Organisms that only eat plants

Question 6

Carnivores

Answer 6

Organism that only eat meat

Question 7

Omnivores

Answer 7

Organisms that eat both plants & meat

Question 8

Producers

Answer 8

Organisms that produce their own food

Question 9

Consumers

Answer 9

Organisms that eat living producers &/or other consumers for food

Question 10

Decomposers

Answer 10

Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms

Question 11

Autotrophs

Answer 11

Organisms that make their own food

Question 12

Heterotrophs

Answer 12

Organisms that depend on other organisms for food

Question 13

Receptors

Answer 13

Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal/external environment

Question 14

Asexual Reproduction

Answer 14

Kids w/ yourself

Question 15

Sexual reproduction

Answer 15

Sex w/ others

Question 16

Inheritance

Answer 16

Genes/ characteristics you get from your parents

Question 17

Mutation

Answer 17

Abrupt changes in DNA compared to parents

Question 18

Hypothesis

Answer 18

An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation of answer a question

Question 19

Theory

Answer 19

A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data

Question 20

Scientific law

Answer 20

A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data

Question 21

Microorganism

Answer 21

Living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye

Question 22

Abiogenesis

Answer 22

The idea that long ago very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions

Question 23

Prokaryotic cell

Answer 23

A cell that has no distinct membrane bound organelles

Question 24

Eukaryotic cell

Answer 24

A cell with distinct membrane bound organelles

Question 25

Species

Answer 25

A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units

Question 26

Taxonomy

Answer 26

The science of classifying organisms

Question 27

Binomial nomenclature

Answer 27

Naming an organism with it genus and species name

Question 28

What are the four criteria for life?

Answer 28

1. Space to grow 2. Food 3. Water 4. Heat