AP Biology - Intro to Biology Flashcards

all the vocab words and root words in chapter 1

7257501959	archaea	one of two prokaryotic domains, the other being bacteria	0
7257501960	bacteria	one of two prokaryotic domains, the other being archaea	1
7257501961	bioinformatics	the use of comps, software, and mathematical models to process and integrate biological info from large data sets	2
7257501962	biology	the scientific study of life	3
7257501963	biosphere	the entire portion of earth inhabited by life; the sum of all the planter's ecosystems	4
7257501964	cell	the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life	5
7257501965	community	all the organisms that inhabit a particular area; an assemblage of populations of different species living close enuf together for potential interactions	6
7257501966	consumer	relies upon the feeding of other organisms for survival	7
7257501967	controlled experiment	an experiment in which an experimental group is compared with a control group that caries only in the factor being tested	8
7257501968	data	recorded observations	9
7257501969	deductive reasoning	a type of logic in which specific results are predicted from a general premise	10
7257501970	DNA	a double-streanded, helical nuvleic acid molecule consisting of nucleotide monomers w a deoxrubose sugar and the nitrogenous bases A, C, G, T capable of replicating and determining the ingerited structure of a cell's proteins	11
7257501971	discovery science	the process of scientific inquiry that focuses on describing nature	12
7257501972	domain	a taxonomic caregory above the kingdom level	13
7257501973	eukarya	the domain that includes all eukaryotic organisms	14
7257501974	ecosystems	all the organisms in a given area as well as the abiotic factors with which they intereact; one or more communities and the phusical environment around them.	15
7257501975	emergent properties	new properties that arise w each step upward in the heratchy of life, owing to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexitly of life increases	16
7257501976	eukaryotic cell	a type of cell w a membrane-enclosed nucleus and membrane-enclosed organelles.	17
7257501977	gene	a discrete unit of hereditary info consisting of a specific nucleotide sequence in DNA	18
7257501978	genome	the genetic material of an organism or virus; the complete complement of an organism's or citus's genes along with its nincoding nucleic acid sequence	19
7257501979	hypothesis	a tentative answer to a well framed question, narrower in scope than a theory and subject to testing	20
7257501980	inductive reasoning	a type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific obserations	21
7257501981	inquiry	the search for info and explanation, often focused by specific questions	22
7257501982	animalia	the kingdom that consists of multicellular eukaryotes that ingest their food	23
7257501983	Fungi	eukaryotic kingdom that includes organisms that absorb nutrients after decomposing organic material	24
7257501984	Plantae	the kingdom that consists of multicellular eukaryotes that carry out photosynthesis	25
7257501985	model	a rep of a theory or proces	26
7257501986	molecule	two or more atoms eld together by covalent bonds	27
7257501987	negative feedback	a primary mechanism of homeostasis, whereby a change in a phusiological variable truggers a response that counteracts the initial change	28
7257501988	organ	a specialized center of body function composed of several diff types of tissues	29
7257501989	organ system	a group of organs that work together in performing viral body functions	30
7257501990	organelle	any of several membreans enclosed structires w specialized functions, suspended in the cytosaol of eukaryotic cells	31
7257501991	population	a lockalized group of individuals of the same species that can interbreed, producing fertile offspring	32
7257501992	positive feedback	a physiological control mechanism in which a change in a variable truggers mechanisms that amplify the change	33
7257501993	prokaryotic cell	a type of cell lacking a membrane enclosed nucleus and membrane enclosed organelles	34
7257501994	reductionism	the whole is greater than the sum of its parts	35
7257501995	systems biology	an approach to studying biology that aims to model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems	36
7257501996	technology	the application of scientific knowlede for a specific purpose, often involving industry or commerce but also including uses in basic research	37
7257501997	theory	an explanation that is broad on schope, generates new hypotheses, and is supported by a large body of evidence	38
7257501998	tissue	an integrated goup of cells w a common function, structure or both	39