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Montgomery College BIO 150 Lecture Test 1 - Chs. 1-5, 8.4-8.5 Study Guide Solutions living organisms have cells, movement, reproduction and growth abilities. - ANSWER-compare living organisms with nonliving objects. viruses have DNA. however, they are not made of cells and cannot extract energ...

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Montgomery College BIO 150 Lecture
Test 1 - Chs. 1-5, 8.4-8.5 Study Guide
Solutions

living organisms have cells, movement, reproduction and growth abilities. -

ANSWER✔✔-compare living organisms with nonliving objects.


viruses have DNA. however, they are not made of cells and cannot extract energy from

the environment. - ANSWER✔✔-explain why viruses are difficult to classify as living or

nonliving.


1. biosphere, 2. ecosystems, 3. communities, 4. populations, 5. organisms, 6.

organs/organ systems, 7. tissues, 8. cells, 9. organelles, 10. molecules - ANSWER✔✔-

outline the major levels of biological organization.


novel properties emerge that are absent from the preceding level. example:

photosynthesis occurs in organized chloroplast but not in a tube of everything in a

chloroplast separated - ANSWER✔✔-discuss the meaning of the phrase 'emergent

properties.' give an example.




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,there is unity in the kinship among species that descent from common ancestors. ex: the

extremely different types of eukaryotes still have the same cilia - ANSWER✔✔-discuss

the unity that underlies the diversity of life. give an example.


from conclusions about individuals varying from traits, populations producing more

offspring than their next generation, and species adapting to environments, Darwin

decided that the environment selecting te best to survive was evolution's mechanism for

descent with modification. - ANSWER✔✔-outline Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

by natural selection. include the phrase 'descent with modification.'


1. make observation, 2. ask question, 3. formulate hypothesis, 4. design experiments to

test hypothesis - ANSWER✔✔-outline the steps of the scientific method.


it is the study of the natural and physical world; supernatural and religious questions

are outside the bounds of science - ANSWER✔✔-discuss the limits of science.


is there a God? - ANSWER✔✔-give examples of questions that cannot be answered by

science.


the scientific study of life. - ANSWER✔✔-define: biology


the new properties that arise with each step upward in the hierarchy of life, owing to

the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases. - ANSWER✔✔-

define: emergent properties




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, descent with modification; the idea that living species are descendants of ancestral

species that were different from the present-day ones; also defined more narrowly as

the change in the genetic composition of a population from generation to generation. -

ANSWER✔✔-define: evolution


the steady-state physiological condition of the body. - ANSWER✔✔-define: homeostasis


dependent: a variable whose value is measured during an experiment to see if it is

influenced by changes in the independent variable.


independent: a variable whose value is controlled and manually changed during an

experiment to reveal effects on the dependent. - ANSWER✔✔-define: dependent vs.

independent variables


qualitative: categorical measurement expressed by means of a natural language

description.


quantitative: information that can be measured and written down with numbers -

ANSWER✔✔-define: qualitative vs. quantitative data


a testable explanation for a set of observations based on the available data and guided

by inductive reasoning. a hypothesis is narrower in scope than a theory. - ANSWER✔✔-

define: hypothesis


an explanation that is broader in scope than a hypothesis, generates new hypotheses,

and is supported by a large body of evidence. - ANSWER✔✔-define: theory

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