BSC1005 Chapters 1-4 Study Guide questions with answers
Biology - ANSWER: ➡ Scientific Study of life
Seven properties of life - ANSWER: ➡ 1. Order,
2. Regulation,
3. Growth and development,
4. Energy processing,
5. Response to the environment,
6. Reproduction,
7. Evolution
Order - ANSWER: ➡ All living things exhibit complex but ordered organization, example pinecone
Regulation - ANSWER: ➡ The environment outside an organism may change drastically, but the organism can adjust its internal environment keeping it with appropriate limits
Growth and development - ANSWER: ➡ Information carried by DNA controls the pattern of growth and development in all organisms
Energy processing - ANSWER: ➡ Organisms take in energy and use it to perform all of life's activities they emit energy as a heat
Response to the environment - ANSWER: ➡ All organism respond to environmental stimuli.
Reproduction - ANSWER: ➡ Organisms reproduce their own kind, - a process by which an organism perpetuates itself and its species Evolution - ANSWER: ➡ Reproduction under lies the capacity of populations to change -evolve- over time
Biosphere - ANSWER: ➡ All life and all the places where life exists
Ecosystems - ANSWER: ➡ Consists of all living organisms in a particular area and all
the nonliving components of the environment with which life interact, such as soil, water, and light
Communities - ANSWER: ➡ All organisms in the tide pool - iguanas, crabs, seaweed,
bacteria, and others- are collectively called a community
Populations - ANSWER: ➡ Within communities are various populations, groups of the interacting individuals of one species, such as a group of iguanas
Organisms - ANSWER: ➡ An organism is an individual living thing like iguana
Organ systems and organs - ANSWER: ➡ An organism's body consists of several organ systems, each which Contains two or more organs
Tissues - ANSWER: ➡ Several different tissues, such as the heart muscle tissue. A tissue consists of group of similar cells performing a special function
Cells - ANSWER: ➡ The cell is the smallest unit that can display all the characteristics of life. The cell has a special place in the hierarchy of biological organization
Organelles - ANSWER: ➡ Are functional components of cells , such as the nucleus that houses the DNA
Molecules - ANSWER: ➡ The chemical level in the hierarchy.
Molecules are clusters of even smaller chemical units called atoms, Chemicals that result from atoms linking together
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