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| The Scope of Biology | Biology is the study of life is rooted in the human spirit |
| Emergent Property | Biological organization is based on a hierarch of structural levels, each building on the levels below |
| The subunits of organisms, the units of life | cells |
| evolution | change |
| Darwin's book | On the origin of species by means of natural selection |
| Darwin's ship | HMS Beagle |
| Consumers | eat plants and other animals. They take in oxygen and return carbon dioxide to the atmosphere |
| Decomposers | act as recyclers, changing the complex dead matter into simple mineral nutrients that plants can use |
| Energy from the sun... | is the driving force behind all connecting webs and ecosystems |
| Eukaryotic | an organism that has a true nucleus bounded by nuclear membrane animals, plants, fungi, protozoa |
| Prokaryotic | A single celled microbe in which the chromosome is scattered in the cytoplasm and not bounded by a membrane bacteria |
| organs | make systems |
| DNA | the blueprints of life of the molecular commonality for the basis of the diversity of life common in all life and properties |
| Characteristics of life | Order, Regulation, Growth and developement, response to the environment, reproduction, evolution, energy utilization |
| Life has order | Eukarya Bacteria Archaea |
| Kingdoms | Plantae Monerans Fungi Protista Anamalia |
| Inductive reasoning | Scientific testing of a hypothesis |
| Deductive reasoning | developing a hypothesis |
| Scientific method | observe, hypothesis, experiment, collect data, classify, conclusion |
| Independent Variable | something that is manipulated |
| Dependent variable | depends on independent variable |
| Darwin's proposal | organisms that are best suited to their environment are most likely to survive and pass on their traits |
| Naturalist | A person who studies organisms and their environment |
| Extrapolation | guess, predict |
| Interpolation | graphing, measuring data that you KNOW |
