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| one of two prokaryotic domains; these organisms generally inhabit extreme environments |
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| one of the two prokaryotic domains; inhabit all kids of environments |
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| the use of technology to process and integratebiological information from large data sets |
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| the scientific study of life |
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| DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) |
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| double-stranded, helical nucleic acid molecule; capable of being replicable and determining the inherited structure of a cell's proteins |
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| new properties that arise with each step upward in the hierarchy of life; owing to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases |
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| the domain including all eukaryotic organisms |
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| a type of cell with a membrane-enclosed nucleus and membrane-enclosed organelles; form protists, plants, fungi, and animals |
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| the result of the process of mutations that results in change over generations of a given species |
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| the process by which information encoded in DNA directs the synthesis of proteins |
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| discrete units of hereditary information consisting of specific nucleotide sequences |
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| the genetic material of an organism or virus; the compete complement of an organism's or virus' genes along with its noncoding nucleic acid sequences |
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| the study of whole sets of genes and their interactions within a species; as well as genome comparisons between species |
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| Levels of Biological Organization |
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| biosphere, ecosystems, communities, populations, organisms, organs and organ systems, tissues, cells, organelles, and molecules |
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| a process by which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits |
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| a form of regulation in which an accumulation of an end product of a process slows the process; in physiology, a primary mechanism of homeostasis, whereby a change in a variable triggers a response that counteracts the initial change |
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| a form of regulation in which an accumulation of an end product of a process speeds up the process; in physiology, a control mechanism of homeostasis, whereby a change in a variable triggers a response that reinforces the initial change |
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| a type of cell lacking a membrane-enclosed nucleus and organelles--bacteria and archaea are made up of this type of cell |
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| approach to studying biology that aims to model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems based on a study of the interactions among the system's parts |
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