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33 Cards in this Set
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What are the 7 characteristics of life?
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Cellular Organization, Ordered Complexity, Sensitivity, Growth Development and Reproduction, Energy Utilization, Homeostasis and Evolutionary Adaptation
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Hierarchical organization of biology? (5 terms)
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Cellular, Organismal, Populational, Ecosystem, Biosphere
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What makes up the cellular level? (4 things)
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Atoms, Molecules, Macromolecules, Organelles
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What makes up the organism level? (4 things)
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Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism
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What makes up the population level? (3 things)
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Population, Species, Community
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What are emergent properties?
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The result of the way the different biological levels interact.
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What is Deductive Reasoning?
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General to specific
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What is Inductive Reasoning?
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Specific to General
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What is a hypothesis?
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A suggested explanation that accounts for an observation
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What is known as the iterative process?
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The idea that hypotheses can be changed and refined with new data
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What is an experiment?
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A test of a hypothesis
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What is a test experiment?
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An experiment where one variable is altered in a known way
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What is a control experiment?
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An experiment where the variable is kept the same to show contrast to the test experiment
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What is reductionism?
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The process of breaking things down to their most basic parts for easier understanding
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What is a theory? (2 definitions)
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A proposed explanation of some natural phenomenon based on some general principle, a body of interconnected concepts
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What is a carrying capacity?
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The population limit that an area can support. After the limit is reached, population will crash
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What is artificial selection?
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Man made selection based on "best" traits.
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What is natural selection?
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Natural process of adaptation "survival of the fittest"
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What are homologous limbs?
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Limbs that share the same evolutionary origin but differ in structure and function
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What are analogous limbs?
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Limbs that differ in evolutionary origin but have similar structure and function
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Robert Hooke?
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Discovered cells, England, 1665
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DNA
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Deoxyribonucleic acid, double helix, composed of nucleotides
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Gene
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A section of the DNA strand
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Genome
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The entire set of genes
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What is a prokaryote?
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A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus
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What is a Eukaryote?
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A unicellular or multicellular organism that have nuclei in their cells
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Are bacteria prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
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Prokaryotes
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Are archaea prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
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Prokaryotes
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Are Eukarya prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
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Eukaryotes
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What are the four main groups of Eukarya?
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Protista, Fungi, Anamalia, Plantae
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What is homeostasis?
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An organism's ability to regulate its internal environment
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Main idea of cell theory?
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All living things have cells
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What is evolutionary conservation?
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When a characteristic is retained through evolution because it is important to the life of an organism
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