Unit 1

Question 1

What is the study of biology?

Answer 1

The study of living things

Question 2

How do you know if something is alive?

Answer 2

1) It uses energy (made of cells)

2) Reproduces (passes DNA on)

Question 3

What are the levels of biological organization?

Answer 3

1) Atoms
2) Molecules
3) Organelles (Mitochondria, golgi…)
4) Cells (Cardiac cell)
5) Tissue (Heart tissue)
6) Organ (Heart)
7) Organ system (Cardiovascular system)
8) Organism
9) Population (Organisms of SAME species)
10) Community(Different organisms living together)
11) Ecosystem (Living & non-living components)
12) Biomes (Prarie, desert, decidous forest)
13) Biosphere (The earth)

Question 4

What is a producer?

Answer 4

Organism that uses sunlight of chemicals for energy

Question 5

What is a consumer?

Answer 5

Organisms that eat producers and other consumers. (Herbivores & carnivores)

Question 6

What are decomposers?

Answer 6

Organisms that eat dead and decomposing producers and other consumers. (Fungus & bacteria)

Question 7

What is a prokaryote?

Answer 7

“pre” “nucleus” (No nucleus) (Bacteria)

Question 8

What is a eukaryote?

Answer 8

“true” “nucleus” (Has a nucleus) (Humans)

Question 9

What is an autotroph?

Answer 9

“self” “feeder”

Question 10

What is a heterotroph?

Answer 10

“different” “feeder”

Question 11

What are the 3 domains?

Answer 11

1) Eubacteria
2) Archaebacteria
3) Eukarya

Question 12

What are the 6 kingdoms?

Answer 12

1) Archaebacteria (Ancient, prokaryote)
2) Eubacteria (Prokaryote)
3) Protista (1 cell, Eukaryote)
4) Plantae (Multi-cell, autotroph, eukaryote) (Tree)
5) Fungi (Heterotroph, external digestion)
6) Animalia (Heterotroph, internal digestion)
(3-6 fall under the eukarya domain)

Question 13

What does the acronym King Phil Came Over For Green Shakes mean?

Answer 13

Kingdoms
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Question 14

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 14

An educated guess that can be tested

Question 15

What is a theory?

Answer 15

It is not a fact because it cannot be observed, but has not been found to be untrue

Question 16

What is a law?

Answer 16

A descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances

Question 17

What is evolution?

Answer 17

Change over time

Question 18

What is a fact?

Answer 18

An observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and cannot be disputed (EX: i am wearing red.)

Question 19

What is mutation?

Answer 19

A change in an organisms DNA

Question 20

What is survival of the fittest?

Answer 20

Only the most fit organisms will survive to pass their jeans onto their offspring (Darwinism)

Question 21

What is artificial selection?

Answer 21

When humans breed organisms for select traits

Question 22

For natural selection to happen you need….

Answer 22

1) Individuals very in form, function, and behavior
2) Adaptive Environmentally effected traits
* Organisms that do well in certain environments
3) Out come of differences are in survival and “reproduction”
* More fit more likely to survive & have offspring
4) Leads to a better fit with prevailing environmental conditions
* Weak ones die out & strong stay, means organisms better suited for their environment.

Question 23

What does Kilo- mean?

Answer 23

1,000

Question 24

What does Deca- mean?

Answer 24

10

Question 25

What does Deci- mean?

Answer 25

.1 or 1/10

Question 26

What does Centi- mean?

Answer 26

.01 or 1/100

Question 27

What does Milli- mean?

Answer 27

.001 or 1/1000

Question 28

What does Micro- mean?

Answer 28

.000001 or 1/1,000,000

Question 29

What are the 5 most important rules of graphing?

Answer 29

1) Use a title 2) Label and title units 3) Fill the graph paper 4) Evenly spaced increments 5) Independent variable on x-axis

Question 30

When do you use a pie graph?

Answer 30

When you show portion of a whole/percentages

Question 31

When do you use a bar graph?

Answer 31

When you are comparing

Question 32

When do you use a line graph?

Answer 32

When something is increasing (Time, temp., etc.)

Question 33

When do you use the light microscope?

Answer 33

For thin transparent specimens 1 cell thick (cells, tissues) | *TAN

Question 34

When do you use the dissection microscope?

Answer 34

To examine larger organisms and plants * It has 2 eyeholes * GREY

Question 35

When do you use the electron microscope?

Answer 35

For observing up to 10,000,000x | *Shoots electrons at organisms

Question 36

What is parfocal?

Answer 36

The lenses stay in focus even when changed

Question 37

What is objective?

Answer 37

3 of these on the nosepiece of microscope

Question 38

What is centrifuge?

Answer 38

It seperates solids and liquids

Question 39

Name the steps to the scientific method.

Answer 39

1) Identify a problem 2) Collect information about the problem 3) Create a hypothesis 4) Test the hypothesis 5) Make observations 6) Come to a conclusion 7) Revise the hypothesis and retest

Question 40

What is the 2 types of data that can be collected in experiments?

Answer 40

Quantitative and qualitative

Question 41

What does Hecto- mean?

Answer 41

100