Chapter 1 Flashcards

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What are the properties of life?

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  1. Order 2. Evolutionary adaptation 3. Regulation 4. Growth and development 5. Response to environment 6. Energy Processing 7.Reproduction
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What is Order in the context of properties of life?

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Order is the principle the arrangment of structures in different living beings will be the same

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Explain adaptation in the context or properties of life

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Adaptation in this context is traits appearing due to evolution in a species

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Explain Regulation in the context of properties of lfie

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An organisms ability to regulate their own body/structure, such as temp regulation,

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Explain growth and development in the context of properties of life

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Growth and development is the fact that all life will grow and increase in size/mature

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Explain response to environment in the context of the properties of life

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An creature will react to the environment, such as a cats eye moving

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Explain what energy processing is

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All living things will use energy

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Explain the property of cells in properties of life context

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All living things have cells

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What is a single blind experiment

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An experiment where the researcher doesn’t know which group they’re studying

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What is a double blind experiment

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A double blind experiment is where neither the researchers nor the test subjects know which group they’re in

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What is a controlled experiment

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It’s an experiment where there are 2 or more groups with a variable differing among them

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What is pseudoscience and what are signs of it

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It’s any research that claims to have scientific basis without actually having it. Signs include circumstantial evidence, not peer reviewed, and mostly anecdotal evidence

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put these in order from greatest to smallest: Tissue

Organelle

Communities

Organ systems

Atoms

Ecosystem

Organisms

Molecules

Cells

Populations

Biosphere

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Biosphere, ecosystem, populations, communities, organisms, organ systems, tissue, cells, organelle, molecules, and atoms

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What is evolution

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Evolution is the development of heritable traits which emerge via natural selection. Natural selection is some traits being more favored than others due to environmental conditions

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What are the three types of bacteria

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Baccilius(rod shaped), coccus(spherical, and spirillium(spiral shaped

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