Scientific Method
Observation, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Theory, Scientific Law
What is the scientific method?
The total of all processes in an organism which convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy to sustain it's life.
What is metabolism?
Inheritance
What is the process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent(s) to the offspring?
Fungi
What are heterotrophs and decomposers?
Kingdom of a prokaryotic Cell
What is Monera?
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.
What is a hypothesis?
Two names for organisms that are able to make their own food.
What are Producers and Autotrophs?
Mutation
What is an abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of its parents?
Eukarya
What is the three classification system of organisms with eukaryotic cells?
Species
What is a unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units?
DAILY DOUBLE:
Can science actually prove something? Explain.
Science cannot prove anything. The best science can say is all known data support a given statement.
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?
Abiogenesis
What is the idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions?
Prokaryotic Cell
What is a cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound organelles?
Classification groups in hierarchical order.
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
Theory
What is a hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data?
Photosynthesis
What is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of simple sunlight and chemicals to produce their own food?
The sum total of all process in an organism which break down chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks.
(hint: "catastrophe")
What is Catabolism?
DAILY DOUBLE
Discuss spontaneous generation.
This theory survived so long because the scientists wanted to believe it so bad that they pushed the theory to less understood areas of science and used their very little bad data to hold it in existence.
Which will show more similarity two organisms within the same family? Or within the same genus?
What is genus?
Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment.
What are receptors?
Heterotrophs
What are organisms that depend on other organisms for their food?
The four criteria for life.
What are 1. Contain DNA 2. Method to extract energy from surroundings and convert to usable energy 3. sense changes in surroundings and respond 4. reproduce?
Describe the 5 kingdoms and their defining features
What is: Monera - all organisms of prokaryotic cells; Protista - all organisms of one or simple association of eukaryotic cells; Fungi - mostly decomposers; Plantae - mostly autotrophs ; Animalia - heterotrophs that are not decomposers (animals)