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Biology Module 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| metabolism | process in an organism which converts energy/matter from outside sources and uses that to sustain life functions |
| anabolism | processes in an organism use energy/simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life |
| catabolism | processes in an organism breaks down chemicals to produce energy /simple chemicals to produce own food |
| photosynthesis | process green plants/some other organisms use energy of sunlight/simple chemicals to produce own food |
| herbivores | eats only plants |
| carnivores | eat only organisms other than plants |
| omnivore | eats plants/other organisms |
| producers | produce own food |
| consumers | eat living producers/ other consumers for food |
| decomposers | break down the dead remains of other organisms |
| autotrophs | able to make there own food |
| heterotrophs | depend on other organisms for food |
| receptors | special structures that allow living organisms sense the conditions of internal/external enviroment |
| asexual reproduction | reproduction accomplished by 1 organism |
| sexual reproduction | reproduction that requires organisms |
| inheritance | process which physical/biologic characteristics are transmitted from parent(s) to offspring |
| mutation | abrupt and marked change in dna of an organism compared to parents |
| hypothesis | educated guess attempts to explain an observation/answer question |
| theory | hypothesis that's been tested with significant amount of data |
| scientific law | theory that been tested by and consistent with generations of data |
| mircoorganism | living creature too small to see with naked eye |
| abiogenesis | idea that long ago very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions |
| prokaryotic cell | cell with no distinct membrane-bounded organelles |
| Eukaryotic cell | cell with distinct membrane-bounded organelles |
| species | unit of one or more populations of individualist that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, are reproductively isolated from other units |
| taxonomy | science of classifying organisms |
| binomial nomenclature | naming organism with genus/species name |
| what are the 4 cafeterias for life | 1. DNA 2.way to extract energy from surroundings and convert it into energy to sustain them 3.sense changes in surroundings and responds 4.can reproduce |
| what can science prove | nothing because it is based on experiments that may be flawed making conclusions always tentative |
| what does the story of spontaneous generation show | almost 2000 years of executing scientific method resulted in law being clearly wrong you cant put to much faith in scientific laws because they are fallible |
| what does the wise person doe | trust the bible because is\ts infallible |
| what 7 topics can you use to categorize something | kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
| all organisms made up of prokaryotic cells belong to what kingdom | monera meaing there either archaea or bacteria domain |
| if it has a Eukaryotic cell it | is in the Eukarya domain |
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