BIOL 1201 Exam 1 - Chapters 1-5 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers

BIOL 1201 Exam 1 - Chapters 1-5
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
1. Order
2. Evolutionary adaptation
3. Regulation
4. Energy processing
5. Growth & development
6. Response to the environment

7. Reproduction - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the 7 characteristics of life?
** If a system is missing one of these, it is not considered living! **


first shell - 2
second shell - 8

third shell - 8 - CORRECT ANSWER - How many electrons does it take to fill the first
electron shell? The second? Third?


the sum of its parts - CORRECT ANSWER - As you move to higher levels of biological
organization, each new level is more than just...?


emergent property - CORRECT ANSWER - properties that would not have been
predictable from merely observing an object/system


reductionism - CORRECT ANSWER - reduction of a complex system to simpler
components which are more manageable for studying
ex) studying DNA helps us to understand inheritance


valence shell - CORRECT ANSWER - an atom's outermost electron shell

, ecosystems
communities
organism
tissues

organelles - CORRECT ANSWER - Levels of biological organization, from smallest to
largest: biosphere > __________________ > _____________________ > populations >
_________________ > organs > _______________ > cells > __________________ > molecules


covalent bonds

valence - CORRECT ANSWER - ____________________ __________ are formed to
"compensate" for non-full ____________ shells


Oxygen
Carbon
Hydrogen

Nitrogen - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the 4 most common elements in biology?


Calcium
Phosphorus
Potassium
Sulfur
Sodium
Chlorine

Magnesium - CORRECT ANSWER - What are a few common elements in biology
(outside of the main 4)?


protons - CORRECT ANSWER - All atoms of an element have the same number of
_______________.