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Rutgers General Biology 115 Exam 1well answered to pass
Neural Development - correct answer ✔✔involves gene expression and signal transduction (nervous
system in the brain)
Neuronal Plasticity - correct answer ✔✔modifications to nervous system after birth; activity dependent;
"use it or lose it"
Synapses - correct answer ✔✔junction between neurons that tell the brain memories. When broken, the
memory is "lost"
What's the first step in the process of memory formation? - correct answer ✔✔Stimulus
What's the second step in the process of memory formation? - correct answer ✔✔Sensory Memory
What's the third step in the process of memory formation? - correct answer ✔✔Short-Term Memory
What's the fourth step in the process of memory formation? - correct answer ✔✔Long-Term Memory
What process is it when you retrieve memory from the long-term memory into the short-term? - correct
answer ✔✔Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)
What happens when sensory memory and short-term memory is not encoded? - correct answer
✔✔Forgotten
Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) - correct answer ✔✔encoding and reencoding memories; changes the
brain (stronger synapses/memory)
, Neuron - correct answer ✔✔Nerve cell
Emergence - correct answer ✔✔the whole is more than just the sum of its parts (ex: H2O)
Levels of Biological Organization (largest to smallest) - correct answer ✔✔Biosphere > Ecosystems >
Communities > Populations > Organisms > Organs & Organ Systems > Tissues > Cells > Organelles >
Molecule
BECPO(OS)TCOM - correct answer ✔✔an acronym for the levels of biological organization
What's 1st the level of biological organization? (from largest to smallest) - correct answer ✔✔Biosphere
What's 2nd the level of biological organization? (from largest to smallest) - correct answer
✔✔Ecosystems
What's 3rd the level of biological organization? (from largest to smallest) - correct answer
✔✔Communities
What's 4th the level of biological organization? (from largest to smallest) - correct answer
✔✔Populations
What's the 5th level of biological organization? (from largest to smallest) - correct answer ✔✔Organisms
What's 6th the level of biological organization? (from largest to smallest) - correct answer
✔✔Organs/Organ Systems
What's 7th the level of biological organization? (from largest to smallest) - correct answer ✔✔Tissues
What's the 8th level of biological organization? (from largest to smallest) - correct answer ✔✔Cells
What's the 9th level of biological organization? (from largest to smallest) - correct answer ✔✔Organelles
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