click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Biology: Mrs. Pinney
biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Science | a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. |
| Biology | The science of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena, especially with reference to origin, growth, reproduction, structure, and behavior. |
| Cells | The basic structural unit of all organisms. |
| Sexual reproduction | the production of new living organisms by combining genetic information from two individuals of different types. |
| Asexual reproduction | A form of reproduction that does not involve meiosis, ploidy reduction or fertilization, and the offspring is a clone of the parent organism. |
| Metabolism | the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. |
| Stimulus | something that incites to action, or exertion or quickens action, feeling, thought. |
| Evolution | change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift. |
| Biosphere | The ecosystem comprising the entire earth and the living organisms that inhabit it. |
| Ecosystem | a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment. |
| molecules | the smallest physical unit of an element or compound, consisting of one or more like atoms in an element and two or more different atoms in a compound. |
| organism | a form of life considered as an entity; an animal,plant,fungus,protistan, or moneran. |
| Atoms | Source of nuclear energy. |
| Quarks | Any of a number of subatomic particles carrying a fractional electric charge, postulated as building blocks of the hadrons. |
| Taxonomy | The science dealing with the description, identification, naming, and classification of organisms. |
| Carolus Linneaus | swedish botanist |
| binomial nomenclature | a system of nomenclature in which each species is given a unique name that consists of a generic and a specific term. |