Biology Chapter 1 Quiz

To investigate and understand nature, to explain events in nature, and to make predictions.

Science is an organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world.

Use of one or more of the senses to gather information.

<p>Information gathered from observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A proposal intended to explain certain previously known facts or observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities (such as color, size, font).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relating to the measurement of quantity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A test of the effect of a single variable by changing it while keeping all other variables the same.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Factor in an experiment that a scientist purposely changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Factor in an experiment that a scientist purposely keeps the same.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Data from the experiment is used to either support or reject the hypothesis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He completed an experiment with meat, and maggots appeared out of 'nowhere' - spontaneous generation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He disagreed, believing that heat would kill everything in the gravy, but saw activity afterward.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He heated the gravy more and sealed it, proving no 'animals' appeared in sealed gravy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He proved that life can only be formed from other life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Living things can be created by non-living things.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Made of Cells 2. Reproduce 3. Based on universal genetic code (DNA) 4. Obtain and use materials and energy 5. Grow and develop 6. Respond to environment 7. Maintain homeostasis 8. As a group, change over time (evolution).</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process by which cells from two different parents unite to produce the first cell of a new organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process by which a single parent reproduces by itself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Set of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Molecular, cells, tissues, organ systems, organisms, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The smallest particle of a substance that retains the chemical and physical properties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The basic unit of all living things.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A part of an organism consisting of cells having a similar structure and function.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of tissues that work together.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of organs that work together to perform a specific function.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An individual living thing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of organisms of the same species populating a given area.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Populations inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Community, together with its nonliving environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth, contains all ecosystems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A decimal system of weights and measures based on the meter and the kilogram and the second.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Magnifier of the image of small objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Microscope that allows light to pass through a specimen and uses two lenses to form an image.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A microscope that uses a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Technique in which cells are broken into pieces and the different cell parts are separated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Living things.</p> Signup and view all the answers