Vocabulary 1
organisms that depend on other organisms for food
What are heterotrophs?
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?
This is what regulates the amount of light that passes through the specimen.
This is an abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism
What is a mutation?
These animals have internal processes to regulate their temperature.
Endotherms
Organisms that are able to make their own food
What are autotrophs?
These are possible explanations for observations that can be tested
What is a hypothesis?
These are the metal tubes that contain lenses of varying powers, usually 4x, 10x, etc..
The objectives
This law survived because flawed experiments seemed to confirm it
These animals lack an internal process to regulate their temperature.
Ectotherms
This is a hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data
What is a theory?
This is the maintenance of stable internal conditions
What is homeostasis?
This type of microscope is useful for viewing the detailed structures inside a muscle cell
What is a transmission electron microscope?
This criteria for life states that all life forms must be able to absorb energy from their surroundings and convert it into a form of energy that will power their life functions
What is metabolism?
What is the first criteria for life discussed by the book?
That all things consist of cells.
This is the sum total of all processes in an organism which use energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life
What is anabolism?
This is made using one of the five senses describing something you see, hear, smell, touch or taste
What is an observation?
This type of microscope is useful for viewing the details of the surface of a human hair
What is a scanning electron microscope?
special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environments
What are receptors?
asexual
sexual
inheritance
mutation
DNA
Logical interpretations based on prior knowledge
What is inference?
This type of reproduction produces offspring that are identical to the parents
What is asexual reproduction?
This microscope is useful for viewing the small organisms in a drop of water
These are living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye
What are microorganisms?
Honor Track Question:
This is the idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions. This is what most scientists believe now.
Abiogenesis