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| what is the study of life called? |
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| Cellular Organization, Sensitivity, Order, Homeostasis, Energy Utilization, Evolutionary Adapation, Growth/reproduction/development |
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| What is the seven characteristics of life? |
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| It must have at least one cell. |
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| One characteristic of life is cellular organization, describe what this entails? |
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| Atoms, molecule, macromolecule, organelle, cell, tissue, organ, system, organism |
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| One characteristic of life is order, what is the order for life? |
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| What are the two ways that scientist think called? |
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| Taking a general princple and then applying it to a specific situation |
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| What is deductive reasoning? |
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| Making an observation and then building a general principle. |
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| What is inductive reasoning? |
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| What is a suggestive explanation for an observation that is seen? |
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| They do experiments and try to replicate the work, if they can't disprove it, it eventually becomes a theory. |
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| How do scientists try to disprove a hypothesis? |
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| How an organism responds to stimuli, e.g. taking hand off of a hot stove. |
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| One characteristic of life is sensitivity, describe what this entails? |
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| The process in which organsims keep constant internally althought the external factors are different, e.g., body temperature |
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| Organisms have to be able to survive and interact with other organisms. |
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| One characteristic of life is evolutionary adapation, describe what this entails? |
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| Cellular, organismal, population, and ecosystem |
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| What are the four levels of the biological world? |
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| Atoms are joined into clusters called... |
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| Molecules are asssembled into... |
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| Organelles are bounded into... |
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| What is a group of similar cells that act as a functional unit? |
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| Tissues are grouped into... |
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| A group of the same species living in the same place is called? |
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| The _________________ consists of all the populations of different species. |
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| The entire planet is known as the _______. |
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| novel properties arising from the way in which componets interact. |
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| What are emergent properties? |
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| what was the most important accomplishment of molecular biology in the 21st century? |
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| the circumferece of the earth |
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| Erastisthenes used Euclidean geometry to estimate what? |
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| After making careful observations, scientist construct what? |
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| a proposition that might be true. |
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| The test of a hypothesis is called what? |
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| one variable is altered in a way to test a particular hypothesis. |
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| What happens in a test experiment? |
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| no variables are altered. |
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| what happens in a controlled experiment? |
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| He performed an observation between spontaneous generation and the germ hypothesis. |
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| Describe Louis Pasteur's experiment. |
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| When scientist break down a complex system to examine its working parts. |
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| Reductionism has been the general approach of what branch of biology? |
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| When do enzymes behave differently from their normal context in cells? |
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| They provide a way to think about a problem and get a closer look at it. |
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1. as a proposed explanation for a natural phenomenon.
2. a body of concepts that are supported with evidence and reasoning. |
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| Name the two ways scientist use the word theory. |
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| it is driven by a scientists curoisty or interest in a scientific question |
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| is used to solve practical problems. |
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| What is applied research? |
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| They are published by other scientists and are used as a "peer review." |
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| What are result journals? |
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| how organisms on Earth have changed over time and acquired a diversity of new forms. |
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| Darwin's theory of evolution explains and describes what? |
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| "On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection" |
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| What book did Darwin write? |
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| Organisms and their structures resulted from direct actions of a creator. |
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| Before Darwin, most people believed what? |
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| What principle did Darwin find? |
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| South America and the Galapagos Islands |
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| It is made by individuals having certain attributes that give them an advantage in their enviornment. |
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| The breeders select certain animals to create certain characteristics. |
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| What is artifical selection? |
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| Who was a co-partner and had the same ideas as Darwin? |
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| What provided strong evidence for Darwin's theory? |
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| They have the same evolutionary origin but now differ in structure and function. |
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| What are homologous structures? |
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| They have same function but different origins. |
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| What are analogous structures? |
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| It is the pattern of descent, a "Family tree." |
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| What is a phylogenetic tree? |
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| What did Robert Hooke do? |
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| How many differenct nucleotides are found in DNA? |
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| The entire set of DNA instructions that specifies a cell |
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| Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya |
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| What are life's "three great groups" called? |
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| Archaea and Bacteria, prokaryotes |
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| Which group(s) are composed of single celled organisms and what are they known as? |
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| What group(s) are made up of organisms and what are they called? |
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| Plantae, Fungi, Animalia, and Protista |
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| What kingdoms is Eukarya made up of? |
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| it consists of all unicellular eukaryoutes and multicellular algae |
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| Describe the protista group. |
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| organisms that have cell walls of celloluse and energy from photosynthesis |
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| Describe the plantae group. |
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| It has cell walls of chitin and gets energy from secreting digestive enzymes |
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| Describe the fungi group. |
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| It has no cell walls and energy comes from digesting internally |
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| Describe the animalia group. |
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| It is used to direct the synthesis of cellular components. |
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| What is the information stored in DNA used for? |
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| proteins in the membrane, the function of tissues and organs |
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| Cells process information and sense their enviornment through what? And what is this ability essential to? |
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| A constant supply of energy to maintain their stable nonequilibrium state. |
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| Charles Darwin did a five year navigation on what ship? |
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| What book was created to talk about man descending from apes? |
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| age of the earth, molecular biology, fossil record, and comparative anatomy |
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| What are the four supporting ideas of evolution? |
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