Unit 1

Question 1

What is biology?

Answer 1

The Study of Life

Question 2

What is a biologist work?

Answer 2

To solve issues that have scientifically impaled our society.

Question 3

What are the Seven Characteristics of Life?

Answer 3

Organization and Presence of one or more cells
Response to Stimulus
Homeostasis
Metabolism
Growth and Development
Reproduction
Change Through Time

Question 4

What are the two types of cellular bodies?

Answer 4

Unicellar

Multicellar

Question 5

What are the levels of organization? (big to small)

Answer 5

organ, tissues, cells, organelles, biologicle molecles

Question 6

What are organelles?

Answer 6

Tiny structures that carry out functions necessary for the cell to stay alive.

Question 7

What are biological molecules?

Answer 7

The chemical compounds that provide physical structure that bring about movement.

Question 8

What is Homeostasis?

Answer 8

Mechanisms to maintain stable internal conditions.

Question 9

What are the two types of reproduction?

Answer 9

sexual, asexual

Question 10

What is sexual gene wise?

Answer 10

Combined genes

Question 11

What is asexual gene wise?

Answer 11

same genes

Question 12

Is evolution a change in a specific animal?

Answer 12

No, it is throughout a species.

Question 13

How many species are on this planet?

Answer 13

1.5 million

Question 14

What are the three domains of life?

Answer 14

Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya

Question 15

Which domain contains: Protists, Plants, Fungi, or Animals?

Answer 15

Eukarya

Question 16

What are the six animal kingdoms?

Answer 16

Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, Bacteria

Question 17

What is Ecology?

Answer 17

The study of organisms interacting with each other and with the environment.

Question 18

What is an Ecosystem?

Answer 18

Communities of living species and their physical environment.

Question 19

What is the natural selection theory?

Answer 19

As animals reproduce, the ones with the weaker genes will die out and not have their genes passes on while the ones with the strongest genes with pass their genes on more

Question 20

What is the adaption theory?

Answer 20

Needed traits for environment are developed through evolution.

Question 21

Scientific method

Answer 21

An organized approach to learn how the natural world works

Question 22

Observation

Answer 22

Is the act of perceiving a natural occurrence that causes someone to pose a question

Question 23

Hypothesis

Answer 23

A proposed explanation for the way a particular aspect of the natural world functions

Question 24

Prediction

Answer 24

a statement that forecasts what would happen in a test situation if the hypothesis were true

Question 25

Experiment

Answer 25

Something to test a hypothesis and its predictions

Question 26

Control Group

Answer 26

A group that provides a normal standard against which the biologists can compare results of the experimental group

Question 27

Experimental Group

Answer 27

A group that is the same as the control group but has an independent variable

Question 28

Independent variable

Answer 28

The factor the experimenter manipulates

Question 29

Dependent Variable

Answer 29

The variable or part of the experiment that changes in response to the independent variable

Question 30

Peer Review

Answer 30

Review by a person who knows a lot about the subject that is being written about and edits the paper anonymously

Question 31

What are the six steps of the scientific method in order?

Answer 31

1) Observation 2) Hypothesis 3) Prediction 4) Experiment 5) Collect & Analyze Data 6) Communicate results / Peer review

Question 32

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 32

an educated guess

Question 33

Why does an experiment need to be organized?

Answer 33

So that it can be repeated

Question 34

What is the independent variable and what axis is it on in a graph?

Answer 34

The independent variable is the variable the experimenter manipulates and is on the x axis

Question 35

What is the dependent variable and what axis is it on in a graph?

Answer 35

The dependent variable is the thing that changes in response to the independent variable. It is on the y axis.

Question 36

When should you use a bar graph?

Answer 36

things can be categorized

Question 37

When should you use a line graph?

Answer 37

Change over time

Question 38

When should you use a pie chart?

Answer 38

with percentages

Question 39

Every graph needs two things...

Answer 39

1. title | 2. labels

Question 40

What is a scientific theory?

Answer 40

still changing, generally accepted by scientific community highly tested.

Question 41

What is a scientific law?

Answer 41

cannot be changed lots of theories support the laws.