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Biology: All chapter
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is biology the study of? | Life |
| In humans, exposure to ultraviolet light can result in darkening of the skin. What kind of property is this? | Response to the envrionment |
| What is the scientific term for a group of interacting individuals of the same type, living in the same area at the same time? | Population |
| Which series of terms is in the sequence of biological organization from the simplest to the most complex? | Cells, tissue, organ, population |
| Which of the following is true with regard to the relationship between ecosystems and communities? | Ecosystems include the nonliving components of an environment; communities include only the living components of an environment. |
| Tissues are composed of what? | Cells |
| The chemical energy used by most organisms for metabolism and growth ultimately comes from what? | The sun |
| All cells have what? | A cell-membrane |
| At which level of interacting does life first appear? | CEll |
| Plants obtain their energy from what? | Light |
| What would happen if an ecosystem lacked decomposers? | The ecosystem would stop functioning. q |
| Energy is incorporated into most ecosystems by what? | Plants |
| What is the molecular commonality that is the basis of life's variety? | DNA |
| Actinosphenia elegans is a unicellular, photosnythetic, eukaryotic organism. To which domain does it belong? | Eukarya |
| Typically, in which environment might we fin archaea? | Arctic |
| In which kingdom can multicellular photosynthetic organisms be found? | PLantae |
| Protists can be distinguished from the plants and fungi becuase of what? | Protists are eukaryotic and incule both unicellular organisms and multicellular algae |
| Which group within Eukarya represents organisms that are generally single-celled? | Protista |
| Eukaryotic organisms that decompose dead organisms and absorb the nutrients are generally found in which kingdom> | Fungi |
| Humans are members of the _____ | Domain eukarya |
| Experimentation is only one part of the scientific process, but it is a very important step becuase it... | Allows rejection of some alternative hypotheses. |
| A hypothesis must be testable to be scientifically valid,. being testable means that what | some concievable observation could prove the hypothesis incorrect. |
| An increase in antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis bacteria is proving to be a problem in treating this disease. This could be due to what | evolution |
| Which of the following statements is most clearly inductively derived? | If any animals observed require organic molecules as nutrients, then it can be concluded that all animals require organic molecules as nutrients |
| At which point is an investigator most likely to use deductive reasoning? | In establishing a test of a hypothesis. |
| Science itself is capably of doing what? | Determining the physical causes for physical phenomena. |
| Inductive reasoning is based on what? | observation |
| Natural selection tends to act at which of the following levels? | Population |
| Natural selection requires what? | Both heritable variation and differential reproductive success |
| What was Darwins major contribution to understanding the mechanism of evolution? | He proposed the theory of natural selection |
| A theory is.. | a well-supported concept that has broad explanatory power |
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