Zoology Exam 1
Zoology - Answer-The scientific study of animal life.
Reproduction - Answer-Creation of a cell (asexual) or a child (sexual)
Chemical uniqueness - Answer-Living systems demonstrate a unique and complex molecular
organization
Development - Answer-characteristic changes that an organism undergo's from its origin.
Metabolism - Answer-Living organisms maintain themselves by acquiring nutrients from their
environment.
Environmental interaction - Answer-All organisms interact with their environment, the study of this is
called ecology.
movement - Answer-living systems and their parts show precise and controlled movements arising from
within the system.
paradigms - Answer-Powerful theories that guide extensive research.
Animals - Answer-Any multicelled heterotroph that ingests other organisms or their tissues, develops
through a series of embryonic stages, and is motile during part or all of the life cyle. Most species have
epithelial tissues and extracellular matrixes.
,Eukaryotic - Answer-A cell characterized by the presence of a nucleus and other membrane-bound
organelles. Eukaryotes can be unicellular (protists) or multicellular (fungi, plants and animals).
Multi-cellular - Answer-organisms made up of more than one cell (plants and animals)
Heterotrophic - Answer-Organisms that are unable to construct their own food from inorganic sources,
and therefore must consume other organisms or organic molecules from the outside environment.
Function as consumers or decomposers in food chains.
sexual reproduction - Answer-A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their
genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents
Motile - Answer-Capable of movement
Science - Answer-Assumes natural explanations and testable.
Scientific method - Answer-A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data
(observation), formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis (experiment), and stating conclusions.
Theory - Answer-A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data (closest to truth
science gets)
HMS Beagle, 5 Year voyage - Answer-what was the name of the ship and voyage that Charles Darwin
took to study animal life.
Darwins Evolutionary theory of Natural Selection. - Answer-The observation of why things change,
providing explanation for origins of adaptation. This theory speaks of reproductive success and survival
with limited natural resources due to an organisms advantageous genetic traits as well as population
growth from this.
, Random, Non-Random
Random, Non-Random - Answer-Two Components of natural selections are either ___________ or
____________
Production of VARIATION among organisms is ___________. The ____________ components include
survival of different traits, and differential survival and reproduction.
Populations Change.
Unequal Reproduction. - Answer-What is the 2 word definition for evolution?
What about the 2 word definition for Natural Selection?
Homologus - Answer-________ means related or from common decent. (dealing with traits)
Phylogenetic Tree - Answer-A chart showing evolutionary relationships as determined by evolutionary
systematics. It contains a time component and implies ancestor-descendant relationships.
Analogy - Answer-A similarity that comes about separately.
Speciation - Answer-A process typically caused by the genetic isolation from a main population resulting
in a new genetically distinct species.
Multiplication of species - Answer-A branch point in the evolutionary tree, it occurs when an ancestrial
species has split into two different ones by factors such as geographical splitting followed by
evolutionary divergence of the separate parts.
Allopatric speciation - Answer-The formation of a new species as a result of an ancestral population's
becoming isolated by a geographic barrier.
Zoology - Answer-The scientific study of animal life.
Reproduction - Answer-Creation of a cell (asexual) or a child (sexual)
Chemical uniqueness - Answer-Living systems demonstrate a unique and complex molecular
organization
Development - Answer-characteristic changes that an organism undergo's from its origin.
Metabolism - Answer-Living organisms maintain themselves by acquiring nutrients from their
environment.
Environmental interaction - Answer-All organisms interact with their environment, the study of this is
called ecology.
movement - Answer-living systems and their parts show precise and controlled movements arising from
within the system.
paradigms - Answer-Powerful theories that guide extensive research.
Animals - Answer-Any multicelled heterotroph that ingests other organisms or their tissues, develops
through a series of embryonic stages, and is motile during part or all of the life cyle. Most species have
epithelial tissues and extracellular matrixes.
,Eukaryotic - Answer-A cell characterized by the presence of a nucleus and other membrane-bound
organelles. Eukaryotes can be unicellular (protists) or multicellular (fungi, plants and animals).
Multi-cellular - Answer-organisms made up of more than one cell (plants and animals)
Heterotrophic - Answer-Organisms that are unable to construct their own food from inorganic sources,
and therefore must consume other organisms or organic molecules from the outside environment.
Function as consumers or decomposers in food chains.
sexual reproduction - Answer-A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their
genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents
Motile - Answer-Capable of movement
Science - Answer-Assumes natural explanations and testable.
Scientific method - Answer-A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data
(observation), formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis (experiment), and stating conclusions.
Theory - Answer-A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data (closest to truth
science gets)
HMS Beagle, 5 Year voyage - Answer-what was the name of the ship and voyage that Charles Darwin
took to study animal life.
Darwins Evolutionary theory of Natural Selection. - Answer-The observation of why things change,
providing explanation for origins of adaptation. This theory speaks of reproductive success and survival
with limited natural resources due to an organisms advantageous genetic traits as well as population
growth from this.
, Random, Non-Random
Random, Non-Random - Answer-Two Components of natural selections are either ___________ or
____________
Production of VARIATION among organisms is ___________. The ____________ components include
survival of different traits, and differential survival and reproduction.
Populations Change.
Unequal Reproduction. - Answer-What is the 2 word definition for evolution?
What about the 2 word definition for Natural Selection?
Homologus - Answer-________ means related or from common decent. (dealing with traits)
Phylogenetic Tree - Answer-A chart showing evolutionary relationships as determined by evolutionary
systematics. It contains a time component and implies ancestor-descendant relationships.
Analogy - Answer-A similarity that comes about separately.
Speciation - Answer-A process typically caused by the genetic isolation from a main population resulting
in a new genetically distinct species.
Multiplication of species - Answer-A branch point in the evolutionary tree, it occurs when an ancestrial
species has split into two different ones by factors such as geographical splitting followed by
evolutionary divergence of the separate parts.
Allopatric speciation - Answer-The formation of a new species as a result of an ancestral population's
becoming isolated by a geographic barrier.
