Intro to Biology
What is the study of living things?
Biology
The __________ ______ is the use of a system of experimentation and analysis to explore observations and answer questions.
Scientific Method
What are the basic units of life?
Cells
What is the process of organizing living things?
Classification
There are different groups of animals in each class called ______.
Orders
An ________ is a living thing.
Organism
What is the proposed answer to a scientific question?
Hypothesis
_______ ____________ is when one parent organism reproduces by itself.
Asexual Reproduction
What is the highest rank in the classification system?
Domain
What order includes apes, gorillas, orangutans, lemurs, and baboons?
Primates
What are the 5 stages of the human life cycle?
Fertilization, Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood
What is a condition that has been changed before an experiment?
Independent Variable
A ________ is any substance that promotes life and provides energy.
Nutrient
Organisms within each _______ have different characteristics from organisms in the other ________.
Kingdom, Kingdoms
What is the subgroup of order?
Family
A ________ is a sample that is studied.
Specimen
What is the result showing the effect of the change made?
Dependent Variable
What are the two metabolic processes?
Digestion and Cellular Respiration
Organisms in different _____ have different traits from one another.
Phyla
What are groups of organisms with similar characteristics that are able to reproduce only with one another?
Species
_________ is the transmission of energy in the form of waves through an object.
Radiation
When a hypothesis is supported by the results of an experiment, the hypothesis becomes a ______.
Theory
What are the 8 Life Functions?
Growth, Reproduction, Nutrition, Respiration, Transport, Synthesis, Excretion, Regulation
Organisms classified as Chordata are separated further into seven _______.
Classes
Who is known as the father of taxonomy?
Carolus Linnaeus