1. What are the simplest units of life? - ANSWER cells
2. Living organisms maintain? - ANSWER homeostasis
3. Living organisms use? - ANSWER energy
4. Living organisms interact with their? - ANSWER environment
5. Living organisms grow and? - ANSWER develop
6. What provides a blueprint for reproduction? - ANSWER genetic material
7. What do populations of organisms do from one generation to the next? - ANSWER
evolve
8. What determines function? - ANSWER structure
9. What are the smallest components of elements? - ANSWER atoms
10. What can't be broken down into substances by ordinary chemical means? - ANSWER
elements
11. What are the smallest components of compounds? - ANSWER molecules
12. What can be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means? - ANSWER
compounds
13. What are the two mechanisms of evolutionary change? - ANSWER vertical descent and
horizontal gene transfer
, 14. Traits passing from parents to offspring is an example of what evolutionary change? -
ANSWER vertical descent
15. What is the genetic exchange between different species called? - ANSWER horizontal
gene transfer
16. What are the three domains? - ANSWER Bacteria, archaea, eukarya
17. What are the four kingdoms? - ANSWER Protista, Plantae, Fungi, Animalia
18. The complete genetic makeup of an organism is its? - ANSWER genome
19. The complete complement of proteins of an organism is its? - ANSWER proteome
20. Five steps of the scientific method - ANSWER observation, hypothesis, experiment,
analyze, conclusion
21. What are the smallest functional units of matter that form all chemical substances? - ANSWER
Atoms
22. What are the three subatomic particles? - ANSWER protons, neutrons, electrons
23. Where are protons and neutrons located? - ANSWER nucleus
24. Where are electrons located? - ANSWER orbitals
25. What shape are s orbitals? - ANSWER spherical
26. What shape are p orbitals? - ANSWER dumbell
27. How many electrons can each orbital hold? - ANSWER 2
28. Electrons in the outer shell available to combine with other atoms are called? - ANSWER
valence electrons
29. The atomic number equals the number of? - ANSWER protons
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