General Terms
What is the scientific study of life?
Biology
A rise in temperature for the whole planet and one aspect of climate change.
Global warming
What is the overarching theme of biology?
Evolution
What is the acronym for deoxyribonucelic acid?
DNA
This level consists of all life on Earth and all places where life exists
The biosphere
What is the process of change that has transformed life on Earth from the beginning of time to now?
Evolution
The sources of power, like oil, that are made from the leftover carbon of living things that died long ago.
Fossil fuels
Which two domains of life are prokaryotic?
Bacteria and Archaea
What are the units of inheritance that transmit information from parent to offspring?
Genes
This consists of all living things in a particular area along with all the nonliving components of the environment with which those living things interact
An ecosystem
In which type of cell is DNA not separated from the rest of it by enclosure in a membrane-bounded nucleus?
Prokaryotic cell
Unpleasant smoke and gases that are given off by cars, machines, etc.
Exhaust fumes
Which domain of life is eukaryotic and includes human beings?
Eukarya
The entire "library" of genetic instructions that an organism inherits.
Genome
A chemical structure consisting of two or more small chemical units, or atoms
Molecule
Which type of cell is subdivided by internal membranes into different membrane-enclosed organelles, usually the largest of which is the nucleus?
A eukaryotic cell
An area of land filled with wind turbines
Wind farm
What is the mechanism of evolutionary adaptation in which the natural environment helps propagate certain traits among naturally occurring variants in the population?
Natural selection
An approach that involves studying whole sets of genes of a species as well as comparing genomes between species
Genomics
This is made up of a group of cells that work together, performing a specialized function
Tissue
Which approach aims to model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems based on the study of interactions among the system's parts?
Systems biology
Gases that scientists believe prevent heat from escaping from the planet, causing the Earth to get warmer
Greenhouse gases
Which "changes" over time are affected by natural selection?
Evolutionary adaptations
The entire process by which the information in a gene directs the production of a cellular product.
Gene expression
These are the various functional components present in cells
Organelles