Characteristics of Life
The three levels of organization that are important to understand when examining living organisms.
What is order, complexity, and design?
The ability of an organism to maintain a constant internal environment.
What is Homeostasis?
Made of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
What is an atom?
Deals with the normal operation of the physical world.
What is Experimental Science?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
When a system is made up of several interacting components, each of which is necessary for the system to function, and none of which can be made by modifying an already-existing component.
What is Irreducible complexity?
A long-term relationship between organisms of different species.
What is Symbiosis?
These structures act like the organs you have in your body, performing specific functions that are necessary for life.
What are organelles?
Deals with examining present events and using them to indicate what event happened in the past.
What is Inferential Science?
What are producers?
The sum of all chemical reactions occurring in an individual cell to sustain life.
What is Metabolism?
A mode of reproduction in which the offspring comes from only one organism.
What is asexual reproduction?
Cells that are joined together and work as a unit for a specific purpose.
What is tissue?
What is the Philosophy of Science?
Organisms that must eat other organisms for food.
What are consumers?
The chemical reactions occurring in an individual cell that break down complex molecules into simple ones, releasing energy that the organism can use.
What is Catabolism?
Genetic information transmitted through a molecule.
What is DNA?
An individual form of life.
What is an organism?
An exploration of the historical events that shaped the progress of science.
What is the History of Science?
Organisms that decompose dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
The chemical reactions that build complex molecules from simple ones, usually requiring the input of energy.
What is Anabolism?
The process by which a cell becomes specialized to perform a specific set of tasks.
What is Differentiation?
Interactions of living organisms with the physical world they inhabit.
What is an ecosystem?
Recognizes that there are limits to knowledge that can be gained through science, and the other approaches (religion, philosophy, art, music, literature) provide insight that also is valuable for understanding the meaning of life.
What is true science?
The relationships regarding energy flow in nature.
What is the food chain?