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| The study of living organisms |
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The condition of being existent.
1. contain 4 molecules
2. made up of cells
3. Grow and reproduce
4. Use energy and raw materials
5. Respond to environment
6. Maintain homeostasis |
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| What is life? What are the 7 basic characteristics of all living things? |
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| Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya |
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| What are the 3 domains of life? What are characteristics of each? Which do humans fall into? |
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| Should be a statement. Can be sown to be false, it can never be proved to be true. Testable. Gain knowledge. If-then statement |
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| Be able to identify a good hypothesis and determine what makes a good scientific hypothesis |
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| A hypothesis is testable when we can determine experimentally whether it is likely to be false or more likely to be true. Can be observed |
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| What makes a good hypothesis testable? |
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| If it is possible to conceive an observation or an argument which proves the statement in question to be false |
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| What makes a good hypothesis falsifiable? |
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ODCP
1. Make observations and ask questions
2. Develop hypothesis
3. Make a prediction and test it.
4. Draw conclusion
5. Make new prediction |
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| Steps of the scientific method |
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| Theories cannot be tested by a single experiment but emerges from many observations. A summary from many hypothesis. |
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| How is a Theory different than a hypothesis? |
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I - the variable that is varied or manipulated by the researcher
D - the response that is measured |
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| What are dependent and independent variables? |
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| A group of subjects closely resembling the treatment group in many demographic variables but not receiving the active medication or factor under study and thereby serving as a comparison group when treatment results are evaluated |
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| A group of subjects that are exposed to the variable of a control experiment |
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| What is an experimental group? |
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| For verification and proof of statistical consistency. A large sample size is chosen to maximise the chance of uncovering a specific mean difference |
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| Why are experimental replication and sample size important for making data believable? |
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| Statistics help us evaluate relations between variables |
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| Why are statistics useful in evaluating experimental results? |
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| Correlation DOES NOT mean causation. Either negative or positive. |
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| Relationship between correlation and causation |
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| Eukaryotic cells are filled with a large, complex collection of organelles, many of them enclosed in their own membranes; the prokaryotic cell contains no membrane-bound organelles and live in extreme environments |
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| What are the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? |
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| Internal compartments of organisms that carry out essential functions that are necessary for the survival of cells |
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| What are organelles and why are they important? |
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| Adenosine Triphosphate. A nucleotide that consists of a sugar ribose, base adenine, and three phosphate groups. ATP is the energy currency of all living cells |
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| Why is ATP important to cells? |
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| Organism that obtains energy and raw materials by eating the tissues of other oranisms |
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| Organisms that convert energy from the physical environment into chemical energy bonds of organic molecules through photo or chemo synthesis. |
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inputs: carbon dioxide, water, light
outputs: carbohydrate(glucose), oxygen, heat |
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| What are the input and output components of photosynthesis? |
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| The oxygen-requiring pathway b which cells bread down glucose |
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| What is cellular respiration? |
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| t has to do with the presences of oxygen. Aerobic metabolism occurs when oxygen is present and anaerobic metabolism occurs when oxygen is not present. |
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| What is meant by the terms aerobic and anaerobic? |
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| Glucose & Oxygen --> Carbon dioxide, water & energy |
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| What are the input and output components of cellular respiration? |
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| The materials that make up the inputs and outputs of both equations are basically the same, but the reactions are "flipped", so that the products of one process are the reactants of the other, and vice versa. |
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| How does the input and output components of cellular respiration compare to the components of photosynthesis? |
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| A pathway by which cells can harvest energy in the absence of oxygen. Nets only 2 molecules of ATP compared to the 36 of cellular respiration |
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| They are unicellular, or they are multicellular without specialized tissues, and this simple cellular organization distinguishes the protists from other eukaryotes, such as fungi, animals and plants. |
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| Are protists unicellular multicellular or both? |
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| The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. |
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| Non-living components of an organism's environment, such as temperature, light, moisture, air currents, etc. |
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| What are abiotic components of the environment? |
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| Any living component that affects another organism, including animals that consume the organism in question, and the living food that the organism consumes. |
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| What are biotic components? |
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