vocab and main concepts of 1.1
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| 428863141 | Evolution | "The process of change that has transformed life on earth from its earliest beginnings to the diversity of organisms living today." | 1 | |
| 428863142 | What makes something "life"? | -evolutionary adaption -response to the environment -growth and development -reproduction -energy processing -regulation -order | 2 | |
| 428863143 | Emergent Properties | "emerge at the preceding level due to the arrangement and interactions of parts, as complexity increases." | 3 | |
| 428863144 | Reductionism | "The reduction of complex systems to simpler components that are more manageable to study." | 4 | |
| 428863145 | Negatives of reductionism | Disrupting a living system interferes with its functioning but cannot be analyzed without taking it apart. | 5 | |
| 428863146 | Levels of biological organization | 1. The biosphere 2. Ecosystems 3. Communities 4. Populations 5. Organisms 6. Organs and Organ systems 7. Tissues 8. Cells 9. Organelles 10. Molecules | 6 | |
| 428863147 | Goal of systems biology | to construct models for the dynamic behavior of whole biological ecosystems | 7 | |
| 428863148 | Examples of Producers | Plans and other photosynthetic organisms | 8 | |
| 428863149 | the exchange of energy involves the transformation of one ____________ to another | "form of energy" | 9 | |
| 428863150 | form fits its ____ | "function" | 10 | |
| 428863151 | Every cell has: | -A membrane -DNA | 11 | |
| 428863152 | Two Cell Groups are: | -prokaryotic -eukaryotic | 12 | |
| 428863153 | Prokaryotic Cell examples | bacteria and archaea | 13 | |
| 428863154 | Eukaryotic Cell examples | plants and animals | 14 | |
| 428863155 | In Eukaryotic cells DNA is in: | The nucleus | 15 | |
| 428863156 | In Prokaryotic cells DNA is in: | The cytoplasm | 16 | |
| 428863157 | Nucleotides | Building blocks in DNA | 17 | |
| 428863158 | Negative feedback ____ the process | "slows" | 18 | |
| 428863159 | Positive feedback ____ the production | "speeds up" | 19 |
