Levels of Organization
The smallest unit capable of life(at the cellular level).
What is the cell?
A puppy is born weighing 5 lbs and grows to be 75 lbs.
What is Growth and Development?
A signal to which an organism responds to.
What is a stimulus?
The feedback loop mechanism that works toward maintaining a balance.
What is Negative Feedback?
Organisms that must eat another organism to obtain their energy is known as an
What is a Heterotroph or Consumer
Tissues working together and carry a common funciton form...__________
What are our Organs?
Changes in a species that have occurred over time...
What is adaptation?
The study of Life is referred to what branch of Science?
What is Biology?
When you cut your skin, your skin releases chemicals to activate Platelet production to stop the bleeding. This is an example of a 1)Negative Feedback or 2) Positive Feedback System
What is a Positive Feedback Loop system
Reproduction that occurs by combining the genetic information from TWO parents. a)Sexual b)Asexual
What is A...Sexual Reproduction?
What is Tissues?
A sunflower moving toward the sun during the day.
What is response to stimuli?
Humans born without sweat glands usually do not survive. Why not? a)Sweating is an important mechanism for maintaining temperature homeostasis. b)Sweat glands create openings in the skin where gas exchange occurs. c)Sweating is an important way of ridding the body of excess water. d)Sweating is important for purging impurities from the body.
What is A. sweating is an important mechanism for maintaining temperature homeostasis?
The parameter that distinguishes a normal value for bodily functions is known as the..
Set Point
List the levels of organization at the chemical level
Atoms, Molecules, Macromolecules
Humans sweating in response to heat.
What is Homeostasis?
The body's ability to maintain a balanced normal state
What is Homeostasis?
These cells detect a change in the environment and responds by sending the message to control center
What are the receptor (sensory)cells?
Reproduction of a species through by one parent is known as what type of reproduction
What Asexual Reproduction.
Organ systems working together make a(n)...
What is an Organism?
The name of the characteristic in which organisms obtain energy from consumption
What is Metabolism?
Which of the following characteristics can not be used to distinguish between an organism that is Living vs Nonliving:
1) The ability to respond to stimuli:
2) The ability to reproduce
3) The ability to maintain Homeostasis
4) The ability to evolve and adapt to maintain.
5) The ability to move.
What is the Ability to Move....plants dont move and they are considered living organisms.
The component the feedback loop that sends the message to the effector cells to produce a response
The control center
An organism is a(n) __________ organism if it is complex, contains organelles, 1) Unicellular or 2) Multi-Cellular
What is a 2) Muliti-cellular organism
List the level of Hierarchy that distinguishes a living organisms vs non-living ( Levels of Organization).... ___________________
Ex: Cells-Tissues-Organs-Organ Systems-Organism
The passing down of traits
What is Heredity and/or Genetics?
An organism that is capable of producing their own food
What is an Autotroph?
If the calcium in your blood decreases, a gland will sense the decrease and send a chemical message to your bones so it releases calcium bak into the blood. This is an example of a
Negative Feedback Loop System
Cells that release Hormones or activate a muscle response to maintain a constant state...
What are the Effector cells?