The Seven Signs of Life
Cells must obtain energy from food and convert it to this.
What is chemical energy?
Biology can be defined as this.
What is the study of life?
Science is an approach to understand this.
What is the natural world?
Forming and testing hypotheses are at this.
What is the core of science?
Life is distinguished by these 2 qualities.
What are unity and diversity?
Living things have the ability to do this.
What is grow and change?
This branch of biology names and classifies species into broader grous.
What is taxonomy?
This stems from scientific research.
What is technology?
A testable explanation of nature is called this.
What is a hypothesis?
Darwin synthesized the theory of evolution by this.
What is natural selection?
An external stimulus can lead to this.
What are adaptation and evolution?
Life can be organized into higher levels called____.
What are domains?
This can help to test the evolutionary relationships of species.
What is a hypothesis?
in an experiment, the factor that is manipulated is called this.
What is the independent variable?
These can cause indviduals to produce the greatest number of offspring.
What are heritable traits?
Living things exhibit this in their structures and functions.
What is order?
This is a result of the specific arrangement and interactions among component parts.
What are emergent properties?
The goal of technology is to apply this for some specific purpose.
What is scientific knowledge?
This is a measure to judge the outcome of the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
As a result of this, our crops bear little resemblance to their wild ancestors.
What is artificial selection?
Red Pandas are well adapted to the environment here.
What are the mountainous forests of Asia?
This biological organizational level includes the molecule, cell, tissue, and organ.
What is organ?
What are raccoons?
This is he sphere at the core of science that allows the scientist to study the results of a hypothesis and report their findings to the scientific community.
What is analysis and feedback?
This provides the blueprint for proteins.
What is DNA?