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What are the properties or processes associated with living things
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Evolutionary adaptions, energy processing, responding to the environment, and growth and reproduction
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What is the hierarchy biological organization from least to most complex level
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Molecule, cell, organ system, populatin, ecosytem, biosphere
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Study of life
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Biology
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For most ecosystems_____ are the ultimate source of energy, and energy leaves the ecosystem in the form _____
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Sunlight, heat
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What is the lowest level of biological organization that can perform all the activities required for life
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Cell
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What provides evidence of the common ancestry of all life
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Universality of genetic code
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What is a hypothesis
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Tentative explanation that can be tested and is falsifiable
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Why is the control group important
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The control group provides a basis for comparison, pertaining to the variable being tested
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What is the difference between hypothesis and theories
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Hypothesis usually are relatively narrow in scope, theories havebroad explanatory power
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What four elements make up approximately 96% of living matter
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Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen
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