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Biology
Biological reasoning
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a phenomenon? | Something (such as an interesting fact or event) that can be observed and studied, and is usually unusual or difficult to understand or explain fully. |
| What is a biological phenomenon? | A phenomenon associated with a living thing or process (e.g., plants bending towards the light). |
| What are models? | Simplified representations of complex systems or phenomena (e.g., diagrams). |
| What is the value of models? | They help describe and explain complex systems/phenomena, make predictions, and solve problems relating to a particular system or phenomenon. |
| What is a system? | A group of structures (often organs in biology) that work together to carry out a particular task. |
| What is a reductionist approach? | Subdividing complex systems and processes into increasingly smaller parts. |
| What is a systems approach? | Examines interactions among different parts of a system; considers the system as a network (bottom-up approach). |
| What is interdependence? | Living things interact with and rely on each other and their surroundings to survive (e.g., grass depends on soil). |
| What does a change to one part of nature cause? | It can have serious effects on other parts of nature. |
| What is unity of life? | Living things share many features (e.g., all life has DNA & RNA). |
| What is diversity of life? | The variety of life on Earth; diversity exists because of evolution. |
| What does 'form fits function' mean? | The structure (form) of a biological object relates to its role (function) (e.g., red blood cell shape allows more oxygen absorption). |
| What is transfer of information? | How genetic information is used within cells and passed from cell to cell and generation to generation. |
| How is information transferred? | By genes. |
| What are the two roles of genes? | (1) Carry instructions for the cell to make needed molecules; (2) Pass information from parents to offspring as units of inheritance. |
| What is transfer of matter? | Anything that takes up space and has mass moving through systems. |
| How does matter flow? | Environment (air/soil) → plants → animals (eat plants) → environment (via decomposers). |
| What is transfer of energy? | The ability to do work; energy (mostly from the sun) absorbed by plants is passed to living things when eaten. |
| Why do living things need energy? | For cell reactions, movement, growth, reproduction, etc. |
| What happens to energy during transfer? | Some chemical energy is lost as heat to surroundings. |
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