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Biology Study Guide – Chapter 1

Characteristics of Life

1. What is biology?

2. What does a biologist do?

3. Which biologist studies animals? Which biologist studies plants?

4. What term do biologists use for a living thing?

5. List the five characteristics of life. (on your test, be able to identify examples of each one)

6. What is homeostasis and why is it important?

7. How is shivering an example of homeostasis?

8. Describe two other examples of how a person could maintain homeostasis.

9. Would a biologist be interested in studying the reproduction cycles of bacteria? EXPLAIN!!!

10. Explain why this is NOT a response to a stimulus: A person pushes a button and the TV turns on.

11. List the levels of organization within a living organism. (smallest to largest)

12. What is the difference between cells and tissues?

13. a. List an example of a unicellular organism. b. List an example of a multicellular organism.

14. Define consumer, producer, and decomposer. Provide examples of each.

15. Define and classify organisms as a heterotroph or autotroph.

16. What is adaptation and why do animals adapt?

17. How is DNA related to adaptation?

18. What does it mean when biologist state animals grow?

19. Define digestion and metabolism.

20. How are plants examples of organisms that go through asexual reproduction?

21. What type of reproduction do we go through?

22. What is the difference between sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction?

23. Biologists categorize organisms according to the type of food they eat. What are those categories, how are the different or alike, and what are some examples of each?

24. Why air, water, and an environment important to organisms?

25. What are the building blocks of life?

26. Who is Robert Hooke?

27. What caused Hooke to name what he saw cells?

28. What is a species? Provide an example of a species and a non-example and explain your reasoning.

29. What four steps do we use when reading? (Hint: Look at your reading graphic organizer!)

Review your notes!! There will be some questions from the last unit. You should focus your study on the current unit and then go back and quickly scan through important points in our last unit on the scientific method, data, and experimental design.

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