Biology 101,
Chapter 1-6
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, science - ✔✔answer a body of knowledge about the natural world
biology - ✔✔answer field that studies living things
theory - ✔✔answer a general set of principles, supported by evidence
characteristics of life - ✔✔answer Obtain energy, respond to environment, maintain constant internal
environment, inherited info, reproduction, composed of cells, levels of variation, complexity
neutral - ✔✔answer Atoms are usually electronically ____
atomic mass - ✔✔answer number of protons plus amount of mass
atomic number - ✔✔answer number of protons
half-life - ✔✔answer time required by an element to decay to a more stable form, reduces by half in
this time
covalent bonds - ✔✔answer formed when atoms share electrons
electronegativity - ✔✔answer tendency to attract electrons
dipole - ✔✔answer when one side of a molecule is positively charged but the other is negatviely
charged
hydrogen bond - ✔✔answer attraction of a partially + charged H atom with a negatively charged and
unpaired electron from another atom
ionic bond - ✔✔answer the transfer of electron to a more electronegative atom as two unstable atoms
interact