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How's life defined? Life is defined through a set of shared characteristics that all living
things display.
Fire can move, grow, reproduce, All the answer above
use
energy, consume oxygen, and
interact with its environment.
Why is it not alive?
Is a virus alive? No, it does not possess all of the requirements for life.
Which property or properties A virus has order
of life does a virus possess?
Certain parasites, such as Survival outside of a host is not a requirement for life
intestinal tapeworms, cannot
survive outside of the
host. Why are they still
considered alive?
" There are 628 squirrels Species
living on campus." I have just
described the
A college campus- including the Ecosystem
students, birds, trees, sidewalks,
air- makes up one complete
Skin is sometimes referred to Skins consist of multiple tissue types that cooperate to perform a
as the largest organ of the specific task.
body. Why is skin considered
to be an organ and not a
tissue or some
other structure?
Which of the following is the Ecosystem, Community, Population, Organ, Tissue, Cell, Molecule, Atom
correct
organizational hierarchy, from
largest to smallest, in the
hierarchical order of life?
Beginning with an atom and Small and simple to large and complex
working up to the entire
, planet, biologists view life as
arranged from
A population consists of A group of interacting individuals of one species
Which is the smallest unit of life? A Cell
If you were to combine all of Biosphere
the ecosystem on the planet,
you would have the
What is typically the first Observation
step in scientific method?
A current trend among Develop a hypothesis
professional baseball players is
wearing braided
titanium necklaces. The
titanium reportedly regulates
the flow of energy through the
body. The player wearing the
necklace then improves
strength, tires less, and
recovers more quickly.If you
were to evaluate these claims
using the scientific method,
what
would be the first step?
What should one do if the results Reject the original hypothesis and formulate a new hypothesis.
of the
experiment consistently do not
support the original hypothesis?