Biological Processes
The study of life.
What is biology?
Organisms that eat only plants
What are herbivores?
A factor that changes in an experiment.
What is a variable?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
A group of interbreeding organisms coexisting together.
What is a population?
The sum total of all processes in an organism that convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy and matter to sustain the organism's life functions.
What is metabolism?
Living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye.
What are microorganisms?
The group in an experiment that experiences No manipulation.
What is the control group?
A collection of atoms that all have the same number of protons.
What is an element?
A group of ecosystems classified by climate and plant life.
What is a biome?
The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions.
Organisms that eat only organisms other than plants.
What are carnivores?
What is a hypothesis?
A chemical that results when two or more atoms join together chemically.
What is a molecule?
A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units.
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms.
What is a decomposer?
What is a scientific theory?
Chemical bond formed by the sharing of electrons between two or move atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
A measure of the total amount of living tissue of organisms within a trophic level in an ecosystem.
What is biomass?
The process by which a single organism produces genetically identical offspring (offspring receives all DNA from one parent).
What is asexual reproduction?
Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food.
What are heterotrophs?
A description pf a natural relationship or principle, often expressed in mathematical terms, and supported by a significant amount of evidence.
What is a scientific law?
The basic building blocks of proteins each containing a carboxyl group and an amino group.
What are amino acids?
The process by which certain gases (principally water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape the Earth and radiate into space.
What is the greenhouse effect?