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Questions with Answers (100% Correct Answers)
Biology Answer: The study of life
Evolution Answer: Makes sense of everything we know about living
organisms
Organisms living on Earth: Answer: are modified descendants of
common ancestors
Pasteur Answer: disproved the concept of spontaneous generation
Including evolution there are __ themes that unify biology Answer: 8
Define what life is: Answer: 1. Order
2. Reproduction
3. Growth and development
4. Energy processing
5. Responses to environment
6. Regulation
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7. Evolutionary adaptations
Order Answer: Life is highly organized; living cells are the basis of the
organization.
Reproduction Answer: Organisms reproduce with their own kind.
Growth and Development Answer: Consistent growth + development
controlled by inherited DNA
Energy Processing Answer: Use of chemical energy to power an
organisms activities and chemical reactions
Responses to Environment Answer: Ability to respond to environmental
stimuli
Regulation Answer: Ability to control an organisms internal environment
with limits to sustain life
Evolutionary Adaptations Answer: Adaptions evolve over generations as
individuals with traits best suited to their environment have greater
chance of survival and therefore reproductive success. Pass their traits to
offspring.
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Biosphere Answer: All of the environments on earth that support life
(most land regions, bodies of water, and lower atmosphere)
Ecosystem Answer: All the organisms living in a particular area (large)
and the physical components which the organisms interact with. (soil,
water, air)
Community Answer: All organisms that inhabit an ecosystem.
Population Answer: All the individuals of a species living in an specific
area
Organisms Answer: Individual living things
Organ Answer: A body part of two or more tissues that carries out a
particular function in an organism.
Organ System Answer: Several organs that cooperate in a specific
function.
Tissues Answer: An organized group of cells of a particular type
Cells Answer: Fundamental unit of organisms.
Organelles Answer: Functional, membrane enclosed structures that make
up cells present in eukaryotic cells. Performs a specific function in a cell.
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Molecule Answer: Cluster of small chemical units called atoms held
together by chemical bonds
Atoms Answer: Smallest chemical unit.
Is the hierarchy related to scale (size)? Answer: Not necessarily, consider
the microbiome in you
Whats the microbiome? Answer: Bacteria and other organisms live in
communiteis and ecosystems within us and support important functions
(eg. digestion, immune system)
Emergent Properties Answer: Unique properties that each level in a
hierarchy has.
Emergent properties result from: Answer: The arrangement and
interaction of parts within a system
True or False?
Emergent properties characterize biological and non biological entities.
Answer: True
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Biology 1010 Midterm 1 (ULeth, Spring 2018) not finished
Questions with Answers (100% Correct Answers)
Biology Answer: The study of life
Evolution Answer: Makes sense of everything we know about living
organisms
Organisms living on Earth: Answer: are modified descendants of
common ancestors
Pasteur Answer: disproved the concept of spontaneous generation
Including evolution there are __ themes that unify biology Answer: 8
Define what life is: Answer: 1. Order
2. Reproduction
3. Growth and development
4. Energy processing
5. Responses to environment
6. Regulation
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7. Evolutionary adaptations
Order Answer: Life is highly organized; living cells are the basis of the
organization.
Reproduction Answer: Organisms reproduce with their own kind.
Growth and Development Answer: Consistent growth + development
controlled by inherited DNA
Energy Processing Answer: Use of chemical energy to power an
organisms activities and chemical reactions
Responses to Environment Answer: Ability to respond to environmental
stimuli
Regulation Answer: Ability to control an organisms internal environment
with limits to sustain life
Evolutionary Adaptations Answer: Adaptions evolve over generations as
individuals with traits best suited to their environment have greater
chance of survival and therefore reproductive success. Pass their traits to
offspring.
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Biosphere Answer: All of the environments on earth that support life
(most land regions, bodies of water, and lower atmosphere)
Ecosystem Answer: All the organisms living in a particular area (large)
and the physical components which the organisms interact with. (soil,
water, air)
Community Answer: All organisms that inhabit an ecosystem.
Population Answer: All the individuals of a species living in an specific
area
Organisms Answer: Individual living things
Organ Answer: A body part of two or more tissues that carries out a
particular function in an organism.
Organ System Answer: Several organs that cooperate in a specific
function.
Tissues Answer: An organized group of cells of a particular type
Cells Answer: Fundamental unit of organisms.
Organelles Answer: Functional, membrane enclosed structures that make
up cells present in eukaryotic cells. Performs a specific function in a cell.
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Molecule Answer: Cluster of small chemical units called atoms held
together by chemical bonds
Atoms Answer: Smallest chemical unit.
Is the hierarchy related to scale (size)? Answer: Not necessarily, consider
the microbiome in you
Whats the microbiome? Answer: Bacteria and other organisms live in
communiteis and ecosystems within us and support important functions
(eg. digestion, immune system)
Emergent Properties Answer: Unique properties that each level in a
hierarchy has.
Emergent properties result from: Answer: The arrangement and
interaction of parts within a system
True or False?
Emergent properties characterize biological and non biological entities.
Answer: True
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