WGU C190 Introduction to Biology exam with correct answers

WGU C190 Introduction to Biology exam || || || || || ||




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Biology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the scientific study of life
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Characteristics of Life - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Be made of materials || || || || || || || || || || ||



organized in a hierarchical pattern. || || || || ||




2. Use energy and raw materials to survive
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3. Sense and respond to changing environments and maintain internal
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stability, or homeostasis. || ||




4. Grow, develop, and reproduce.
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5. Be part of a population that evolves.
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The Cell - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the smallest unit that displays all
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characteristics of life || ||




Matter - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Any substance that has mass and takes up
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space. All matter can be classified as biotic or abiotic.
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Biotic - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Living or having lived
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Abiotic - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔nonliving and never have been alive
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,Atom - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Basic unit of matter
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Molecule - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a chemical structure consisting of at
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least two atoms held together by a chemical bond
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Macromolecules - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Technically polymers, made by || || || || || || || ||



combining smaller units called monomers. (Example -Deoxyrbonucleic Acid
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[DNA])



Two main types of cells - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Prokaryotic and
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Eukaryotic



Prokaryote - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Small and simple, do not have clearly
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defined compartments inside of them
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Eukaryotes - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔organisms made up of one or more
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cells that have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
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Organelles - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔compartments inside of the cell that
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contain specific groups of macromolecules and carry out specific cellular
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functions.



microorganism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔single-celled life forms || || || || || ||




Tissues - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A group of similar cells that perform the
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same function.
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, Organs - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A collection of tissues that work together
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to carry out a common general function.
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organ system - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the higher level of organization that
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consists of functionally related organs
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Organism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔individual living entity that survive and
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reproduce as a unit
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Population - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔all the individuals of a species living
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in a specific area
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Community - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔All the different populations that live
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together in an area
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Ecosystem - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Consists of all the living things in a
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particular area together with the abiotic parts of that environment.
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Biosphere - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the of all ecosystems on Earth.
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Includes all habitable zones on the planet, including land, soil, rocks the
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Earth's crust, water and ice, and the atmosphere.
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Organization of Biosphere - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Molecule, Cell, || || || || || || || ||



Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem || || ||