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Flashcards by ERIN HACHEZ, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ERIN HACHEZ
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| Question | Answer |
| Biology | The scientific study of life. |
| Biosphere | Which consists of all life on earth and all the places where life exists. |
| Ecosystems | Consists of all living things in a particular area. |
| Community | The array of organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem. |
| Population | Consists of all the individuals of a species living within the bounds of a specified area. |
| Organisms | Individual living things. |
| Organ | A body part that is made up of multiple tissues and has specific functions in the body. |
| Cell | Is life's fundamental unit of structure and function. |
| Organelles | The various functional components present in cells. |
| Molecules | Is a chemical structure consisting of two or more units called atoms. |
| Emergent Properties | Are due to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases. |
| systems biology | The exploration of a biological system by analyzing the interactions among its parts. |
| Eukaryotic Cell | Contains membrane enclosed organelles. |
| Prokaryotic Cell | Lacks a nucleus or other membrane enclosed organelles. |
| DNA | The structure that contains the chromosomes genetic material. |
| genes | The genetic material that is each a section of the DNA. |
| Gene expression | The entire process by which the information in a gene directs the manufacture of a cellular product. |
| Genome | The entire "library" of genetic instructions that an organism inherits. |
| Genomics | The study of whole sets of genes. |
| Proteomics | The study of whole sets of proteins. |
| Bioinformatics | The use of computational tools to store, organize, and analyze the huge volume of data that results from high- throughput methods. |
| Producers | Organisms that produce their own source of food through the process of photosynthesis. |
| Consumers | Are organisms, such as animals, that feed on other organisms or their remains. |
| Feedback Regulation | The output |
| Climate Change | A directional change to the global climate that lasts for three decades or more. |
| Evolution | The concept that the organisms living on Earth today are the modified descendants of common ancestors. |
| Natural Selection | The natural environment consistently "selects" for the propagation of certain traits among naturally occurring variant traits in the population. |
| Inquiry | A search for information and explanations of natural phenomenon. |
| Data | Recorded observations. |
| Inductive Reasoning | Deriving generalizations from a large number of specific observations. |
| Hypothesis | Is an explanation, based on observations and assumptions, that leads to a testable prediction. |
| Experiment | Is a scientific test, carried out under controlled conditions. |
| Deduction Reasoning | Involves logic that flows in the opposite direction, from the general to the specific. |
| Controlled Experiment | One that is designed to compare a controlled group with an experimental group. |
| Variables | A feature or a quantity that varies in an experiment. |
| Independent Variable | The factor being manipulated by the researchers. |
| Dependent Variable | The factor being measured that is predicted to be affected by the independent variable. |
| Theory | Is much broader in scope than a hypothesis. |
| Model Organism | A species that is easy to grow in the lab and lends itself particularly well to the questions being investigated. |
| Technology | Is to apply the scientific knowledge for some specific purpose. |
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