The World of Biology
Themes in Biology
The Study of Biology
Multiple Choice
Wild Card
100
The study of life
What is biology?
100

The variety of life

What is diversity?

100
An organized approach to learn how the world works
What is the scientific method?
100
Biology is the study of A. animals B. plants and animals C. all living things D. energy transfer
C. all living things
100
Communities of living species and their environments.
What is an ecosystem?
200
The smallest unit of life
What are cells?
200

The process of change over time 

Evolution

200

What are the 4 groups of macromolecules

What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?

200
An example of a domain is A. Animalia B. Protista C. Fungi D. Eukarya
What is D. Eukarya
200

A genetic condition where an individual inherits the same alleles for a particular gene from both parents. (2 of the same alleles

What is an homozygous?

300
The ability to maintain constant body temperature
What is homeostasis?
300

They can show how animals changed over time and how they are related to each other

What are fossils?

300

The group that does not change in an experiment

What is a control group?

300
A trait that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce is a(n) A. mutation B. natural selection C. adaptation D. domain
What is C. adaptation
300
Used to test a hypothesis and its predictions.
What is an experiment?
400

A testable, proposed explanation for a phenomenon

What is hypothesis?

400
Branch of Biology that studies organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
400

An alteration in the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA

What is mutation?

400
A statement that explains observations and can be tested is called A. a hypothesis B. an inference C. a theory D. a model
What is A. a hypothesis
400

The sequence of a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule is translated to a sequence of amino acids during protein synthesis

What is translation?

500
Producing new organisms
What is reproduction?
500
Organisms that have certain favorable traits are better able to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
500

The organelle that synthesizes proteins. 

What are ribosomes?

500
A biologist who studies the behavior of birds in a rain forest most likely collects data through A. experimenting B. modeling C. observing D. inferring
What is C. observing
500
The factor that is changed by the experimenter.
What is the independent variable?
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