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| What are the 7 characteristics of life? |
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1) Cells and organization
2) Energy use and metabolism
3) response to environmental changes
4) regulation and homeostasis
5) growth and development
6) reproduction
7) biological evolution |
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| the ability an organism has to maintain relatively stable internal conditions |
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| what are the different levels of biological organization? |
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1) Atoms
2) Molecules an macromolecules
3)Cells
4) Tissues
5) Organs
6) Organisms
7) Population
8) Community
9) ecosystem
10) Biospere |
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| what is the relationship between biological evolution and natural selection? |
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| with out natural selection biological evolution would not be capable |
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| what is the difference between the concepts of the tree of life and the web of life? |
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| the tree of life focuses on one specific species and vertical evolution and the web of life focuses how both vertical and horizontal evolution play a role in the development of new species. |
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| what is taxonomy and why is it useful to place organisms into taxonomical groups? |
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| taxonomy is the grouping of species based on common ancestrial traits and is useful because it shows an evoulutionary path |
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| What are the 3 domains of life? |
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1) Bacteria
2) Archaea
3) Eukarya |
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| What is binomial nomenclature and how do you write a species name? |
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two part name - Genus and species
The genus name is capitalized and both names are italized. |
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| complete genetic makeup of an organism |
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| a collection of proteins that a cell or organism can make |
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proposed explanation for a natural phenomenon
based on previous observations and studies. |
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| broad explanation of some aspect of the natural world based on a large body of evidence. |
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| What are the steps of the scientific method/hypothesis testing? |
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1) Observation
2) Hypothesis
3) Experiments/Observation
4) Conclusion/Analyze- supports hypothesis go to #5, does not support go to #2
5) Scientific theory |
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| What is the purpose of the control group in hypothesis testing? |
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| a group for comparison that is not exposed to the experimental variable |
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