INTRODUCTION
Misc.
Classification
Diversity of life
Scientific Method
100

What is the definition of Biology?

Study of living things or making questions about how living things interact in the environment.

100

Basic and fundamental unit of life

The Cell

100

What is the study of taxonomy? 

the science of classifying organisms 

100

The even distribution of a species in an area

Evenness

100

Give an example of a objective observation and a subjective observation

Something based on fact and something based on opinion or personal feeling

200

What are the two major theories in biology? Describe them. 

Cell theory, Theory of evolution

All cells are fundamental part of life and all cells come from other cells 

evolution is the source of biodiversity and species change and diverge overtime 

200

Define homeostasis. 

Keeping internal conditions stable or in balance.

200

What is the difference between homologous traits/structures and analogous traits/structures? 

Homologous when it relates to taxonomy refers to two structures that are similar, while analogous structures are similar in function and appearance, but do not share an origin in a common ancestor.

200

An impactful species with low abundance 

Keystone species 

200

What is the difference between precision and accuracy? 

Accuracy refers to how close a measurement is to the true or accepted value. Precision refers to how close measurements of the same item are to each other.

300

Which two sciences does Biology apply their laws to living things?

Physics and Chemistry

300

Describe the process of eutrophication. 

Harmful algal blooms, dead zones, and fish kills are the results the environment becoming too enriched with nutrients, increasing the amount of plant and algae growth to estuaries and coastal waters.


300

Describe ancestral traits and derived traits 

  • ancestral trait: a characteristic on an organism that is shared with a distant ancestor and from a different clade 

  • derived trait: a characteristic on an organism that recently showed up

300

Describe the species-area relationship.

The rate at which new species are seen when the area surveyed is increased (

300
Give a brief description of each: abstract, introduction, materials, methods, results, discussion, and works cited

- Abstract gives a brief summary of the research paper

- Introduction gives a background about what you are researching and introduces past research 

- Materials describes what was used in the study 

- Methods how was it used? how did you get your data?

- results 

- Discussion explaining your results and what they mean


400

Name a practical and a theoretical area of biology.

Practical: Plant breeding, Wildlife management, Medical science and Crop production.


Theoretical: Physiology, Biochemistry, Taxonomy, Ecology and Microbiology.

400

Define the following: Standard deviation, mean, independent variable, dependent variable, null hypothesis, and alternative hypothesis

Standard deviation

Mean: The average of a data set. Acquired by adding up all data point and dividing by the amount of numbers there are. 

IV: The variable that you have control over and is used to manipulate the dependent variable (x-axis)

DV: What is being measured in an experiment (y-axis) 

Alternative hypothesis: There is a difference between two groups 

null hypothesis: There is no difference between two groups

400

Paedomorphism is....

the retention of juvenile traits into adulthood

400

Describe what ecosystem services are and give an example. 

The human benefits provided by natural ecosystems. 

waterways as drinking source, pollinators, ability to grow crops

 

400

Give an example of a model for Data Collection.

Controlled Experiments

Experimental Design

Data Gathering

Investigations

500

Who were the main scientists that began promoting the universal ideas of The Cell Theory.

Schleiden and Schwann

500

Enlist the 9 Characteristics of living things.

  • Order: Living things have order
  • Sensitivity: Living things can respond to their environment 
  • Reproduction: Living things can reproduce
  • Adaptation: Living things can adapt and evolve over time 
  • Growth and development: Living things grow and develop
  • Regulation: Living things have regulation
  • Homeostasis: Living things maintain a stable internal environment

  • Energy processing: Living things can metabolize or obtain and use energy 
  • Evolution: Living things evolve 
500

Who is Alfred Wallace? 

Helped develop the theory of natural selection -  species evolve by adapting to their environment. Collaborated with Charles Darwin to develop theories of evolution and natural selection. 

500

Describe how thermodynamics relates to ecosystem structure and function. (Laws 1 and 2 should be mentioned)

Thermodynamics explains how energy is distributed throughout the structure of ecosystems. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. This is seen as energy moves through the trophic levels of producers and consumers.  Energy is captured, transferred, and lost to heat. Producers capture energy by sunlight then transfer  it from one trophic level to the next, but energy is lost as heat as it moves through. This is described as entropy in the second law of thermodynamics. These laws explain the distribution of species as well as their abundance in ecosystems. 

500

What does "peer-reviewed" journal mean?

Scholarly work reviewed by experts in the same field. 

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