Biology and Review Questions
Bio 101 Chapter 1 Review Questions
1. What do biologists study? What are some properties of life?
2. What is bigger the biosphere or an ecosystem? A community or a population? An organism or an organ system? A cell or a molecule?
3. Do organisms interact with their environment? If so, give an example. What are two major processes in the dynamics of an ecosystem?
4. When energy changes from one form to another what form is often released into the environment? Which type of organism captures the sun’s energy?
5. Where in our bodies is chemical energy produced to sustain our lives? What structure in our bodies is made up of DNA?
6. What’s a major difference between an eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell?
7. What branch of biology creates models to make whole biological systems understandable? What do scientists do with these models?
8. In ____________ regulation the output of a process can slow or increase a process. If the process is slowed by the output it is called _________________________ regulation.
9. What branch of biology groups organism according to their characteristics? What three domains are organisms divided into? What domain do we belong to?
10. Who wrote the On the Origin of Species and what was the major premise of this book? Do we have anything in common with bats? If so, give an example.
11. What are the two main processes of science used in biology? Which of these two processes did Darwin use?
12. ________________ are recorded observations that can be qualitative or quantitative. _____________ reasoning
1. What do biologists study? What are some properties of life?
2. What is bigger the biosphere or an ecosystem? A community or a population? An organism or an organ system? A cell or a molecule?
3. Do organisms interact with their environment? If so, give an example. What are two major processes in the dynamics of an ecosystem?
4. When energy changes from one form to another what form is often released into the environment? Which type of organism captures the sun’s energy?
5. Where in our bodies is chemical energy produced to sustain our lives? What structure in our bodies is made up of DNA?
6. What’s a major difference between an eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell?
7. What branch of biology creates models to make whole biological systems understandable? What do scientists do with these models?
8. In ____________ regulation the output of a process can slow or increase a process. If the process is slowed by the output it is called _________________________ regulation.
9. What branch of biology groups organism according to their characteristics? What three domains are organisms divided into? What domain do we belong to?
10. Who wrote the On the Origin of Species and what was the major premise of this book? Do we have anything in common with bats? If so, give an example.
11. What are the two main processes of science used in biology? Which of these two processes did Darwin use?
12. ________________ are recorded observations that can be qualitative or quantitative. _____________ reasoning