BIO 110-03

Biology tells how systems and organisms function, and how we live, develop, modify and refine ideas about life.

• Nucleic acids
• Proteins
• Lipids
• Carbohydrates

• DNA
• RNA

• C Carbon
• H Hydrogen
• O Oxygen
• P Phosphorous
• S Sulfur
• N Nitrogen

• Atom
• Molecule
• Biomolecule
• Organelle
• Cells
• Tissue
• Organ
• Organ systems
• Organism
• Population
• Community
• Ecosystem
• Biosphere

Reaction by which cells acquire and use energy to grow, survive and reproduce.

Capacity to do work

Type of atom or molecule that has essential role in growth and survival and that an organism cannot make for itself.

• Autotroph
• Heterotroph
• Break down remains / waste.

• Bacteria
• Archaea
• Eukarya

• Archaebacteria
• Eubacteria
• Protists
• Fungi
• Plants
• Animals

Everything that is not artificial

Fundamental building blocks of all substances

forms when two or more atoms of the same or different elements join in chemical bonds

Group of individuals fo the same kind of organism in a specified area.

All populations of all species in a specified area

A community interacting with its physical and chemical environment.

Earth

Sensing and adjusting conditions of internal environment to maintain favorable conditions.

Helps us check an atom for vacancies

It has no vacancies in its outermost shell

A measure of an atom’s ability to pull electrons from other atoms

An attractive force that arises between tow atoms when their electrons interact

Molecules that consist of two or more different elements in proportions that do not vary

An atom with different numbers of electrons and protons