Biol 1001 - Midterm 1 Exam Questions and answers ()

Biol 1001 - Midterm 1 Exam Questions and answers (202472025 ) Organism - ✔✔a living entity made up of cells 5 characteristics of organisms - ✔✔cells, replication, evolution, information (genes), Energy theory - ✔✔an explanation or observation supported by evidence Cell theory - ✔✔all organisms comes from preexisting cells chemical cell theory - ✔✔the proses of where the first cells came form..? Evolution - ✔✔a change in the characteristics of a population over time Natural Selection - ✔✔characteristics are herita ble AND help the individual survive/reproduce more Natural Selections acts on ___ and Evolution occurs on ___ - ✔✔individual, population Biological fitness - ✔✔an individual's ability to produce viable offspring; is measurable by comparing # of offspring s Adaptation - ✔✔an individual is adjusting and changing to function in new circumstances; is a heritable trait that increases the fitness of an individual in an environment relative to others lacking chromosome theory of inheritance - ✔✔A basic principl e in biology stating that genes are located on chromosomes and that the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis accounts for inheritance patterns. Purpose of phylogenetic trees - ✔✔understand evolutionary processes, where each animal is related LUCA - ✔✔last universal common ancestor Cells with nucleus - ✔✔Eukaryotic Taxonomy - ✔✔the effort to name and classify organisms Homo Sapiens - ✔✔Species , Genus pattern component - ✔✔statement about facts (how things are) process component - ✔✔a mechanism that produces that pattern or set of observations Theory of Special Creation - ✔✔1. Species were created independently of each other 2. Species do not change over time - No evolution - No extinction 3. Species were create d recently Lamarck's theory - ✔✔individuals can acquire traits during their lifetime and pass them onto their offspring; a giraffe who reaches for farther leaves will pass down a longer neck; each generation gets better Plato and Typological Thinking - ✔✔an organism were perfectly created by God, and are unchanging