Chapter 1: Introduction to Biology

Reading Worksheet

1.1 Themes and Concepts of Biology

What is biology?
Please highlight or change the color of your answers

What are the four questions biologists ask?

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Properties of Life: Match the following

_____ 1. Order A. Maintenance of internal conditions within a range suitable for life

_____ 2. Sensitivity to stimuli B. All organisms use sunlight or eat other organisms to fuel their metabolic activities

_____ 3. Reproduction C. Plants can bend toward a source of light

_____ 4. Adaptation D. Organisms are highly organized structures built from atoms, molecules and cells

_____ 5. Growth E. Specific instructions in an organisms genes direct the path of the cells and tissues

_____ 6. Regulation F. DNA is passed to offspring which will have characteristics similar to the parent

_____ 7. Homeostasis G. A moths tongue length matches the size of the flower from which it feeds

_____ 8. Energy Processing H. Mechanisms are needed to coordinate internal functions

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Levels of Organization of Living Things

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(click in each square to enter the letters for each word)

Across
1. Individual living entities
3. All populations of all species in a given area
4. Individuals of a species living within a specific area
5. Collections of tissues grouped together based on a common function
7. Consists of functionally related organs and tissues (two words)
11. Small structures that perform specialized functions
13. Collection of all ecosystems
14. A community interacting with its environment
15. Contains a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles

Down
2. Large molecules typically consisting of monomers
6. Consists of at least two atoms held together by a chemical bond
8. Groups of similar cells carrying out the same function
9. Lack membrane-bound organelles and a nuclear membrane
10. Smallest unit of structure and function in living organisms
12. Smallest unit of matter

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Click and drag each of the following images onto the correct level of organization.

Atom

Molecule

Organelle

Cell

Tissue

Organs and
organ
systems

Organism

Population

Community

Ecosystem

Biosphere

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Diversity of Life

What is the source for the diversity of life? (Diversity of life refers to the many different types of living organisms)

From lowest to highest list the eight taxonomic levels

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Answer each of the following questions based on the information in the following figure

At what taxonomic level do Lions and Wolves diverge?

What order do sun flowers belong to?

What is the binomial name for the bacterium?

Is the sun flower more closely related to the Lion or T. profundus?

Which three organisms in the he figure are related the closest?

Domain Bacteria Archae Eukarya Eukarya Eukarya Eukarya

Kingdom Bacteria Archaebacteria Plantae Animalia Animalia Animalia
Phylum Proteobacteria Archaeota Anthophyta Chordata Chordata Cordata
Class Gammaproteob Thermococci Eudicotyledones Mammalia Mammalia Mammalia
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Order Enterobacter Thermococcales Asterales Carnivora Carnivora Carnivora
Family Enterobacteriac Thermococcacea Asteraceae Panthera Felidae Canidae
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Genus Escherichia Thermococcus Cynara Panthera Lynx Canis
Species Escherichia coli T. profundus C. scolymus P. leo L. canadensis C. lupus

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 Fill in the blank using the numbers 1, 3, 4, or 6. Some numbers may be used more than once.

1. There is/are _______ domain(s) of life.

2. There is/are _______ kingdom(s) of life.

3. There is/are _______ kingdom(s) of Archaea.

4. There is/are _______ kingdom(s) of Bacteria.

5. There is/are _______ kingdom(s) of Eukarya.

What is a phylogenetic tree?

What is the name of the microbiologist who first described domains as a new taxonomic level?

Branches of Biological Study

List and briefly describe four branches of biological studies.

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1.2 The Process of Science

Define each of the following terms:

Scientific method

Hypothesis

Scientific Theory

Scientific Law

Natural sciences

Life sciences

Physical sciences

Inductive reasoning

Deductive reasoning

Descriptive science

Hypothesis based science

Falsifiable

Variable

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Why is there an arrow going back up the flow chart?

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