unit 1 - chapter 1 (introduction)

Question 1

what is biology?

Answer 1

the scientific study of life

Question 2

what are plants, animals (even the ones we don’t see), microscopic organisms, and extinct animals?

Answer 2

life

Question 3

how many features of living organisms are there?

Answer 3

7

Question 4

what’s an example of order and organization?

Answer 4

distinct leaf patterns and location of plants in the forest

Question 5

what’s an example of response to environment?

Answer 5

orchid plants lean toward the window to photosynthesize

Question 6

what’s an example of reproduction?

Answer 6

organisms making new organisms

Question 7

what’s an example of regulation?

Answer 7

chloroplasts move around in cells to give plants the best access to light

Question 8

what’s an example of growth and development?

Answer 8

growth from 1 cell to a bunch through cell division

Question 9

what’s an example of energy processing?

Answer 9

energy from nectar changes form for hummingbirds to use it

Question 10

what’s an example of evolutionary adaptation?

Answer 10

birds have changed their beak length to survive the environment and eat

Question 11

what is life also?

Answer 11

requires water, carbon-based, made of cells, uses DNA to encode info, integrated with other organisms

Question 12

what is the hierarchy of biological organization in order?

Answer 12

biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism, organ, tissue, cell, organelle, molecule, atom

Question 13

what is the biosphere?

Answer 13

outermost part of the earth ONLY, integrally connected to atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere

Question 14

what is an ecosystem?

Answer 14

all living things in a local area where they interact with each other and the environment

Question 15

what is a community?

Answer 15

all different organisms that interact with eachother

Question 16

what is a population?

Answer 16

all members of a single species

Question 17

what is a cell?

Answer 17

least thing you can be to be considered alive

Question 18

what is an organelle?

Answer 18

almost like an organ for a cell, comprised of molecules

Question 19

what is a molecule?

Answer 19

atoms arranged in a fixed ratio

Question 20

what is an atom?

Answer 20

something that can only be broken down through chemical means

Question 21

what are the categories of biological diversity classification?

Answer 21

domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species

Question 22

how do you name a species?

Answer 22

italic genus and species name with species being lowercase

Question 23

how many domains of life are there?

Answer 23

3

Question 24

what are the domains of life?

Answer 24

archea, bacteria, eukarya

Question 25

why are viruses not alive?

Answer 25

they can't reproduce independently, don't grow/develop, don't self-regulate, and are not cellular

Question 26

what does the scientific method start with?

Answer 26

observations

Question 27

what is science in latin?

Answer 27

knowledge

Question 28

what does a theory explain?

Answer 28

a natural phenomenom

Question 29

how can a theory be accepted?

Answer 29

supporting evidence

Question 30

what is NOT a theory?

Answer 30

a wild guess

Question 31

when are hypothesis valuable?

Answer 31

when you can test them