Summary CAMPBELL BIOLOGY 11TH EDITION CHAPTER 1 STUDY GUIDE

CAMPBELL BIOLOGY 11TH EDITION CHAPTER 1 STUDY GUIDE Biology --answer: The scientific study of life Biosphere --answer: Consists of all life on earth and all the places where life exists Ecosystem --answer: Consists of all the living things in an area Communities --answer: Consists of the organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem Population --answer: Consists all the individuals of a species living in an area Organisms --answer: Individual living things Organ --answer: A body part with a particular function that is made up of multiple tissues Tissue --answer: A group of cells that work together, performing a particular function Cell --answer: Life's fundamental unit of structure and function Organelles --answer: The various functional components present in cells Molecule --answer: Chemical structure consisting of two or more atoms System biology --answer: Reductionism of emergent properties that helps with the exploration of a biological system by analyzing the interactions among its parts Eukaryotic cell --answer: Contains membrane-enclosed organelles Prokaryotic cells --answer: Lacks a nucleus or other membrane-enclosed organelles Dna --answer: Genetic material contained in chromosomes Gene --answer: The sections of dna of chromosomes Gene expression --answer: The entire process by which the information in a gene directs the manufacture of a cellular product Genome --answer: The entire library of genetic instructions that an organism inherits Genomics --answer: The study of whole sets of genes Proteomics --answer: The study of sets of proteins and their properties Proteome --answer: The entire set of proteins expressed by a given cell, tissue, or organism Bioinformatics --answer: The use of computational tools to store, and analyze the huge volume of data that results from high-throughput methods Producers --answer: Photosynthetic organisms