Bio Test 1 (chapters 1-6)

1st test chapters 1 thru 6 in the textbook essentials of a living world for Wejksnora at UWM

125 cards   |   Total Attempts: 195
  

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Biology
Understanding how living systems stored information to reproduce molecules and structures that use chemistry to "cheat" the laws of physics. Living systems have ability to trap, store, and utilize energy to rearrange the elements of its surroundins to produce an ordered structure capable of self maintenance and continued reproduction.
Order
All living things are comprosed of one or more cells.
Metabolism

Example?
Ability to take in, transform, and use energy.


example: ATP
Homeostasis

example
Regulation of self in response to external conditions

body temperature. always stays at 98.6 no matter what the outside temperature is.
Evolution
Change over time.
Heredity
Transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring
What properties do living organisms show?
Order
metabolism
respond to the environment
homeostasis
reproduction
growth and development
evolution
Levels of organization
Cellular level
organismal level
population level
Cellular level
Sub-atomic
atom
molecule
macromolecule
organelle
cell
Organismal
Tissue
organ
organ system
Sub-atomic
Smallest
electron, proton
Atom
Fundamental elements of matter
carbon, oxygen
Molecule
Atoms joined together into complex structures.
glucose, amino acid
Macromolecule
Large complex molecules
DNA, RNA
Organelle
Complex biological molecules are assembled into tiny compartments within cells
ribosome