Chapter 1
Biological organization composed of several tissues
What is organ?
functional group formula PO4
What is phosphate group?
Male goats will attempt to mate with goats who resemble the female goat who raised them. This is an example of ___
What is imprinting?
A number of populations of different species interacting with one another is called a ____.
What is a community?
A type of organism that produces their own food in an ecosystem.
What is an autotroph?
True or false? Scientific theories, once found to be true, are always true.
What is false?
Monomer of nucleic acids?
What are nucleotides?
The mating strategy in which a male mates with multiple females
What is polygamy?
A form of symbiosis in which both participants benefit.
What is mutualism?
This is NOT a carbon reservoir
A. living organisms
B. dead organisms
C. coal
D. ammonium and nitrates
What are ammonium and nitrates?
A physician specializes in surgery involving the following group of organs: mouth, esophagus, stomach, and intestines. The physician specializes in this biological organization.
What is organ system?
Type of bond where electrons are shared between atoms
Male elk may earn the right to mate with female elk by battling other males with their
antlers. This is an example of ___
A. sexual selection.
B. altruistic behavior.
C. sociobiology.
D. classical conditioning.
What is sexual selection?
Population size is believed to level off at the _______ of an environment.
What is the carrying capacity?
Fungi and bacteria are detritus-feeders, also known as ___.
What are decomposers?
The independent variable in this example: Jennifer wants to use the brand of fertilizer that gives her the most tomatoes from each plant. She breaks her plants into groups and uses a different brand of fertilizer on each group.
What is brand of fertilizer?
Type of bond formation responsible for the properties of water
What is a hydrogen bond?
This statements about fixed action patterns (FAPs) is NOT true.
A. All the members of a species perform the exact same sequence of behaviors.
B. The behavior pattern is stereotyped.
C. The fixed action pattern is considered to be initiated by a sign stimulus.
D. FAPs require learning.
What is FAP's require learning?
In a species with a type III survivorship curve ___
A. most individuals die of old age.
B. many individuals die early in life.
C. individuals die at a constant rate throughout time.
D. most individuals die during their reproductive years .
What is many individuals die early in life?
The first step in the use of carbon by living organisms occurs in ___
A. humans.
B. vertebrates.
C. invertebrates.
D. green plants.
What are green plants?
Jeff wants to know what concentration of bleach would be most effective at killing bacteria without overdoing it and using too much bleach. Jeff makes 3 solutions of bleach in water, 1, 5, and 10% solutions. He then adds a specific number of bacteria to a test tube of each solution and waits 3 minutes. He puts these bacterial on a petri plate and later counts colonies to see how many bacteria survived. In this experiment, the number of bacteria that were killed would be what type of variable?
What is the dependent variable?
Low pH level (0-6) indicates a(n) ___ (acid/base)
What is an acid?
To train an animal, you try to reward each instance of desired behavior. In this way,
you can eventually get pigeons to play ping-pong. This system of reward, where animals are given a reward each time they responded correctly, usually in a boxlike environment, is called ___
What is operant conditioning?
A population under exponential growth would be graphed with ______-shaped
curves.
A. bell
B. pyramid
C. S
D. J
What is a J shaped curve?
A carbon atom starts as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is brought into a sugar molecule by a plant. The sugar is eaten by a deer and is converted back to carbon dioxide in a deer mitocondrion. The carbon dioxide is then exhaled back to the atmosphere. It passed through the ___ of the carbon cycle.
A. living organism to reservoir to living organism to exchange pool.
B. exchange pool to living organism to living organism to exchange pool.
C. reservoir to living organism to living organism to exchange pool
What is exchange pool to living organism to living organism to exchange pool?