Biology
The scientific study of life.
What is biology?
A taxonomic category above the kingdom level.
What is domain?
The entire portion of Earth inhabited by life; the sum of all the planet's ecosystems.
What is the biosphere?
A widely accepted explanatory idea that is broader in scope than a hypothesis, generates new hypotheses, and is supported by a large body of evidence.
What is a theory?
A testable explanation for a set of observations based on the available data.
What is a hypothesis?
An individual living thing, consisting of one or more cells.
What is an organism?
The three domains of life.
What is Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya?
An assemblage of all the populations of organisms living close enough together for potential interactions.
What is a community?
Descent with modification; the idea that living species are descendants of ancestral species that were different from present-day ones; also, the genetic changes in a population from generation to generation.
What is evolution?
Recorded observations.
What is data?
A scientific test. Often carried out under controlled conditions that involve manipulating one factor in a system in order to see the effects of changing that factor.
What is an experiment?
Members belonging to this kingdom are photosynthetic.
What is Plantae?
All the organisms in a given area, along with the nonliving (abiotic) factors with which they interact; a biological community and its physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A process in which individuals with certain inherited traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than are individuals that do not have those traits.
What is natural selection?
A factor whose value is manipulated or changed during an experiment to reveal possible effects on another factor
What is an independent variable?
New properties that arise with each step upward in the hierarchy of life, owing to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases.
What is emergent properties?
Species in this kingdom obtain food by decomposing dead organisms and absorbing the nutrients.
What is Fungi?
A basic unit of living matter separated from its environment by a plasma membrane; the fundamental structural unit of life.
What is a cell?
The selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals to promote the occurrence of desirable traits.
What is artificial selection?
A factor whose value is measured in an experiment to see whether it is influenced by changes in another factor
What is dependent variable?
Inherited information encoded in ——- controls the pattern of growth and development of all organisms.
What is DNA?
Members of this kingdom can obtain their food by eating other organisms.
What is Animalia?
A group of individuals belonging to one species and living in the same geographic area.
What is a population?
In 1859, the book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published by.
Who is Charles Darwin?
An experiment in which an experimental group is compared with a control group that varies only in the factor being tested.
What is a controlled experiment?