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Biology midterm- Dr. Luker A-

All terms and ideas on the semester review guideline.


AB
What is science? 4 points.Dependant on senses, measures data, logical, uses scientific method.
Deductive V. InductiveDeductive starts with a law and works down to a logical conclusion, while inductive starts with evidence and works down to a logical conclusion.
What is an experiment control?An experiment control is the altered variable showing the results of the experiment. IE water.
Contolled V. UncontrolledControlled variable is limited changed or altered. An uncontrolled variable is let go and not altered.
Theory or law?Theory is an idea. Fact is truth.
Revealed truth?Revealed truth is truth from the bible.
BiogenesisMeans that life comes from other life
How can you tell if something is alive?It moves, responds, reproduces, and grows, and needs energy to do those things.
What are the magnifications?4x 10x 40x 100x oil immulsion
ecologythe study of an organism and its environment
ecosystemthe organisms and how the interact with their surroundings
biotic comunityall living things in an organsim
productivitythe rate of photosynthesis of an organism
mutualismwhen an organism depends on other organisms for food.
commensalismone one population is helped by the other population when the 2nd population is neither helped or harmed.
parasitismwhen an organism lives off of another organism
Carbon cyclewhen plants make oxygen and we make carbon dioxide
symbiosiswhen both organisms benfit
respirationthe release of energy from an organism
successiona gradual change of an environment over a period of time
Who first saw the nucleus?Robert brown
Who made the cell theory?Schleiden, schlawn, virchow
what is the cell theory?All things made of cells, Cells come from other cells, cells carry out functions of living things.
absorptiontaking in dissolved into the cell
digestionusing enzymes to break things down
synthesisputting different compounds or substances together to make something
respirationbreak down of food using energy
movementLOCOMOTION!
Irritabilityability to respond to external environment
excretionremoving sissolveable waste from cells
Egestioneliminating non solable nondigestable food.
Secretionsynthesising and then releasing stuff
Homeostasiskeeping a balanced state
Eucaryotic/procaryoticeucaryotic have nucleus
ribosomecarries RNA
Plastidsmembrane bound organisms
Golgi bodyimportant because it puts together things (snythesis) in order to make structures
lysosomesThey hold enzymes
What is the steps to becoming an orgainsimcell,tissue,organ,system,organism
Osmosisthe movement of stuff through semipermieable mebrane
diffusionstuff from high concentration to low concentration
Active transportWhen a membrane allows something into the cell even though it has a higher concentration
Pinocytosiscellular drinking
PhagocytosisCellular eating
ATPHigh energy stuff
Isotonicequal concentration
HypotonicHigher in cell
HypertonicLower inside cell
Aerobicrespiration needing o2
Anaerobicrespiration w/o O2
Codon?A triplet of the three letters.
what are the 4 DNA bases?UCAG
What are the 4 types of protozoans?sarcodinia-amoeba-cilophers-cilia mastagophora-use flagella sporozoa, use peoples
What makes up a scientific binomial name?Genus name/species name
5 kingdom system?Plantae,animalia,protista,funji,monerans
K P.....??Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Protozoans--heterotrophico yeah
Algae autotrophicYeppers
What makes a species?Structural differences
What is in the monera kingdom?Ricketsia, bacteria, virus, bluegreen algae.
What is the main feature of monera?Procaryotic cell.
Typs of bacteria?Coccus, bacillus, spirillum
Sexual reproduction in bacteria?Bacterial transformation.
Asexual reproduction in bacteriabinary fission
What did Robert Koch do?He breeded a pure culture.
Iwanoski?Found and named the virus.