Biology Concepts Quiz

Biology

<p>Multicellular (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>To maintain homeostasis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It helps weed out traits that don't aid in survival so that those traits aren't passed to offspring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Exponential growth</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Not all individuals are alike.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Natural selection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both the unity and diversity of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Artificial selection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Natural selection has made certain bacteria resistant to them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The shape of something</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What something does</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All living organisms and non-living factors in a particular environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The passage of energy through its components</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reuse of Earth's nutrients, chemicals, and metals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It must be received, transmitted, and used.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Result from the interaction of parts in a very complex system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Animalia (B), Protist (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unicellular, found everywhere, some cause diseases but most are beneficial (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unicellular, often live in extreme conditions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unicellular or multicellular, larger and more sophisticated cells (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Archaea (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A guideline for scientists to understand an observation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Data used to describe the natural world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A proposed explanation for an observation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An explanation for a great many observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An experiment that investigates a hypothesis by only changing one variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The thing being manipulated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Groups that serve as a baseline for comparison.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A hypothesis that proposes a change or effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A hypothesis that proposes no effect or change.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Statistical analysis (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Experiments where information is withheld from participants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Single blind (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Double blind (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A medically ineffective control treatment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The illusion of improvement after receiving the non-medicinal treatment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any field falsely presented as having a scientific basis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rigorous experimentation (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quantum physics (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that something that causes symptoms of a disease can cure that disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

The study of life

Characteristics defining life: reproduction, growth, cellular structure, etc.

An organism made up of a singular cell

An organism made up of many cells

The fundamental unit of life

Favors individuals with traits that increase survival

Rapid increase in a species' numbers

All living organisms & non-living factors interacting

The passage of energy through an ecosystem

Units of hereditary information made from DNA

Long DNA strands in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells

Cells with two copies of each chromosome

Sex cells containing one copy of each chromosome

The process of nuclear division resulting in two identical cells

Production of gametes; results in haploid cells

Duplicated chromosomes that are joined together

Images of an individual’s chromosomes lined up

Order of events in the life of a cell

Indentation in animal cells during cytokinesis

Formed in plant cells during cytokinesis

A test investigating a hypothesis by changing one variable

Illusion of improvement after non-medicinal treatment

A testable proposed explanation for an observation

Broad explanation supported by a large body of evidence

Participants have no knowledge of the treatment

The manipulated factor in an experiment

The outcome measured in an experiment

Differences among individuals in a population

Humans select traits for breeding

Fields falsely presented as having a scientific basis

Reusing Earth's nutrients and chemicals

Original material peer-reviewed by researchers

Description or review of primary sources