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Biology Semester1
Monticello High School, IL Biology Semester Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Biology? | The study of life |
| What is an organism? | A thing that has the characteristics of life |
| What are the characteristics of life? | Made of one or more cells, displays organization, grows and develops, reproduces, responds to stimuli, requires energy, maintains homeostasis, and evolves over time |
| What is organization? | Being arranged in an orderly way |
| What is a stimulus? | Anything in the environment and causes some sort of reaction by the organism |
| What is a response? | The reaction to a stimulus |
| What is homeostasis? | Regulation of an organisms internal conditions to maintain life |
| What is an adaptation? | An inherited characteristic that results from a change to a species over time |
| What is science? | Body of knowledge based on the study of nature |
| What is a theory? | An explanation for a natural phenomena supported by experiments over time |
| What is peer review? | Process by which, in science, the procedures and results of an experiment are evaluated by other scientists in the same field |
| What is foresics? | A field of science that applies to legal interest |
| What are ethics? | A set of moral values |