QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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◉ seven unifying themes of biology
Answer: order
reproduction
growth and development
energy processing
response to environment
evolutionary adaptation
◉ emergent properties
Answer: New properties that emerge with each step upward in the
hierarchy of life, owing to the arrangement and interactions of parts
as complexity increases.
◉ biosphere levels
Answer: biosphere
ecosystem,
, community,
population/species,
organism,
organ system,
organ,
tissues,
cells,
organelles
molecules
◉ system
Answer: wholesale study of life
◉ cell
Answer: basic unit of life
◉ dna
Answer: unit of inheritance, holds info to express proteins
◉ chromosome
Answer: pieces of dna