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Scientific study of life

Ordered structure typifies life

Organisms reproduce their own kind

Inherited DNA controls growth and development

Organisms use chemical energy to fuel activities and chemical reactions

All organisms respond to environmental stimuli

Mechanism regulate an organism's internal environment to sustain life

Adaptations evolve over many generations to better suit organisms to their environment and have greater success

Every environment on Earth that sustains life

All organisms in a particular area as well as the physical elements like rocks and dirt

All the organisms within an ecosystem

All the individuals of a particular species in a specific area

Any individual living thing

Several organs that cooperate to perform a specific function

Made up of several tissues

Made up of similar cells

Fundamental unit of life

Membrane-enclosed structure within a cell

Cluster of atoms held together by chemical bonds

The properties that emerge at each level of life's hierarchy

• First to evolve
• Less complex
• Bacteria cells

• More complex, larger
• Animals, plants, fungi, protists
• Have organelles including nucleus for DNA

Construct models for whole systems based on the interaction among different parts

Units of inheritance that transmit genetic material from parents to offspring

A way of organizing different life forms into three categories-domains

• Prokaryotes
• Diverse array of bacteria

• Prokaryotes
• Live in extreme environments

• Eukaryotes
• Nucleus and other internal structures/ organelles

• Species today are descended from ancient species
• Core theme of biology

Those better suited to the environment survive and reproduce which can change the species as a whole

Generalizations are developed from a bunch of smaller specific observations

Proposed explanation for a series of observations

• Ways to test hypotheses
• General ideas are tested by taking specifics that would fit in the generalization and see if they support the hypothesis

• Broader than a hypothesis
• Explain a bunch of observations and have a lot of evidence behind them

Designed to compare an experiment group with a control group

• Goal is to apply science for a specific purpose
• Creates cycle: scientists use new tech in research whic leads to new tech...