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QUESTION:
What is Metabolism?
ANSWER:
All chemical reactions
involved in maintaining the
living state of the cells and
the organism.
QUESTION:
What is CATABOLISM?
ANSWER:
Metabolic pathways that release
energy by breaking down complex
molecules to simpler units
QUESTION:
What is Anabolism?
ANSWER:
Metabolic pathway that consume
energy to build complicated
molecules from simpler ones
QUESTION:
What is a negative feedback?
ANSWER:
Form of regulation in which the
response reduces the initial stimulus
QUESTION:
What is Natural selection?
ANSWER:
Occurs when some individuals of a
species are better able to survive in their
environment and reproduce than others.
Those characteristics are inherited and
can be passed on to offsprings .
QUESTION:
In comparison to eukaryotes, prokaryotes
are
ANSWER:
Simpler, sometimes smaller
Do not contain a nucleus or other
membrane-enclosed organelle.
QUESTION:
What are emergent properties?
ANSWER:
Properties that result from the
arrangement and interaction of parts
of a system
QUESTION:
What does DNA stand for?
ANSWER:
Deoxyribonucleic acid
QUESTION:
What is genes expression ?
ANSWER:
Process of converting information
from gene to cellular product
( passing the information )
QUESTION:
How are is the information from the
genes converted to proteins?
ANSWER:
DNA ( has thousand of genes) is
transcribed into RNA, which is then
translated into a protein
QUESTION:
What are 3 domains of life?
ANSWER:
Bacteria , Archae, Eukarya
QUESTION:
What is taxonomy?
ANSWER:
Branch of biology that names and
classifies species into groups of
increasing breadth
QUESTION:
Name the 2 parts of a scientific
name.
ANSWER:
Genus, Species (Homo sapien)
QUESTION:
What is a hypothesis?
ANSWER:
Tentative answer to a well-framed
scientific question.
QUESTION:
What are the 8 levels of biological
classification system (class of life
organization) ?
ANSWER:
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
Family, Genus, Species
QUESTION:
Recorded observations are
called
ANSWER:
DATA
QUESTION:
What is inductive reasoning?
ANSWER:
Draws conclusions through the logical
process of induction
Method of arriving at general principles
from specific facts.
QUESTION:
What is deductive reasoning?
ANSWER:
Uses general premises to make
specific predictions.
QUESTION:
What is a controlled experiment? Why is
it done?
ANSWER:
An experimental group is compared with
a control group
To accept or reject a hypothesis.
QUESTION:
What are the levels of biological
organization?
ANSWER:
Biosphere, Ecosystem, Community,
Population, Organism, Organ system,
Organ, Tissue, Cell, Organelle, Molecule,
Atom
QUESTION:
What is an element?
ANSWER:
A substance that cannot be broken
down to other substances by
chemical reactions
QUESTION:
When looking at the periodic table, what
is the number called that is directly above
the atomic symbol? What does the
number tell about each atom with that
number?
ANSWER:
Atomic number. Number of protons.
QUESTION:
Atomic mass is the addition of the weight
of
and the weight of
.
The atomic mass is written
.
ANSWER:
Protons , neutrons , below the atomic
symbol.
QUESTION:
What is an isotope?
ANSWER:
Atoms with the same number of
protons , but different number of
neutrons.
QUESTION:
About 25 of 92 natural elements are
known to be essential to life. Which four
of these 25 elements make up aprox. 96%
of living matter?
ANSWER:
Carbon(C), Hydrogen (H), Oxygen (O),
Nitrogen (N).