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Biology
Module 1 Study Guide
Answers to #1
a. Metabolism is the process by
which a living organism takes energy from its surroundings and uses it to
sustain itself, develop, and grow.
b. Photosynthesis is the process by which a plant uses the energy of sunlight
and certain chemicals to produce its own food. Oxygen is often a by-product
of photosynthesis.
c. Herbivores are organisms that eat plants exclusively.
d. Carnivores are organisms that eat only organisms other than plants.
e. Omnivores are organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.
f. Producers are organisms that produce their own food.
g. Consumers are organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for
food.
h. Decomposer are organisms that breaks down the dead remains of other
organisms.
i. Autotrophs are organisms that are
able to make their own food.
j. Heterotrophs are organisms that
depend on other organisms for food.
k. Receptors are special structures or chemicals that allow living organisms to
sense the conditions of their surroundings.
l. Asexual reproduction is reproduction
accomplished by a single organism.
m. Sexual reproduction is reproduction that requires two organisms, a male and
a female.
n. Inheritance is the process by which physical and biological characteristics
are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring.
o. A mutation is an abrupt and marked difference between offspring and parent.
p. An hypothesis is an educated guess that attempts to explain an observation
or answer a question.
q. A theory is hypothesis that has been
tested with a significant amount of data.
r. A scientific Law is a theory that has been tested by and is consistent with
generations of data.
s. Microorganism is a living creature that is too small to see with the naked
eye.
t. Abiogenesis is the theory that, long ago, very simple life forms
spontaneously appeared through random chemical reactions.
u. A prokaryotic cell is a cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound
organelles.
v. A eukaryotic cell is a cell with distinct, membrane-bound organelles.
w. Species are a unit of one or more populations of individuals that can
reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are
reproductively isolated from other such units.
x. Binomial nomenclature is naming an organism with its genus and species name.
y. Taxonomy is the science of classifying organisms.
2. The four criteria for life:
(1) All life forms contain deoxyribonucleic acid, which is called
3. The carnivore is heterotrophic and a consumer. Carnivores do not eat
plants.
4. If a living organism's
tentacles were cut off in an accident, it would not be able to survive long
because it no longer has the ability to sense and respond to changes in its
surrounding environment. Its receptors (tentacles) were destroyed and
therefore no longer able to sense the conditions of the environment.
5. The parent and off springs will
reproduce sexually.
6. The statement is wrong
because science cannot prove anything. The best science can say is that all
known data support a given statement.
7. The scientific method
represents the best conclusions that science has to offer, but they are
nevertheless not completely reliable. The scientific method cannot be proven
and is limited. The scientific method starts out with a person making
observations. Observation allows the scientist to collect data. Once enough
data has been collected, the scientist forms a hypothesis to explain those
observations or to answer a question. The person (often with the help of
others) then designs experiments to test the hypothesis. After the hypothesis
has been tested by a significant amount of data and is consistent with all of
it, then it becomes theory. After more testing with generations of data, the
theory could become a scientific law.
8. The story of spontaneous
generation illustrates the limitations of science because it proves that
scientific laws are not 100% reliable. Because it is impossible to fully test a
scientific law, and because laws are tested by experiments that might be
flawed, scientific laws are not necessarily true. All 1900 years of executing
the scientific method resulted in a law that was clearly wrong. Thus, putting
too much faith in scientific laws and theories will end up getting you in
trouble, because many of the laws and theories in science today will eventually
be shown to be wrong.
9. A wise person should place his/her faith in the Bible because it is %100
reliable and infallible.
10. The theory of abiogenesis is another example of the idea of spontaneous
generation. Abiogenesis is a theory that states that life sprang from
non-living chemicals eons. If you look at the track record of spontaneous
generation throughout the course of human history, it is safe to conclude that
at some point, the version of spontaneous generation known as abiogenesis will
also be shown to be quite wrong. We now know that this law is wrong.
11. The classification groups in order are: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
Family, Genus, and Species.
12. This organism belongs to the kingdom Animalia.
13. This organism belongs to kingdom Monera.
14. 1. macroscopic, proceed to key 3
3. heterotrophic, proceed to key 5
5. decomposer, kingdom Fungi