Biology Basics Review

Question 1

Bob wants to know the effect of different temperatures on plant growth. What would be the independent variable?

Accepted Answer

Different temperatures

Question 2

What is a real world example of negative feedback?

Accepted Answer

sweating when hot

Question 3

The factor that is altered because of the independent variable and is measured as a result

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Dependent Variable

Question 4

Bob wants to know the effect of different temperatures on plant growth. What would be the dependent variable?

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Plant growth

Question 5

The increase in the amount of living material for an organism is known as

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growth

Question 6

What is the SMALLEST unit of life, that is considered to be fully alive?

Accepted Answer

Cell

Question 7

An inherited trait that gives an organism a better chance of surviving in its environment is called...

Accepted Answer

adaptation

Question 8

What is negative feedback?

Accepted Answer

When your body has a change that it tries to stop

Question 9

Find the dependent variable, "If I drive slower, then I will get better gas mileage."

Accepted Answer

Gas mileage

Question 10

Groups of tissues that perform a job

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Organ

Question 11

A cell is

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smaller than a tissue

Question 12

Name the independent variable, "If I take more vitamins, then I will get stronger."

Accepted Answer

Amount of vitaments

Question 13

Find a constant, "If I study more, then I will get better grades."

Accepted Answer

Amount of sleep

Question 14

The process of keeping internal conditions stable when external conditions change is called

Accepted Answer

homeostasis

Question 15

What is the function of the integumentary system?

Accepted Answer

protection

Question 16

This system functions to create the cells and hormones needed to create offspring.

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Reproductive

Question 17

The group that is exposed to the changes of the independent variable

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Experimental Group

Question 18

What is positive feedback?

Accepted Answer

When your body has a change that it continues

Question 19

What are the small structures found within cells called?

Accepted Answer

Organelle

Question 20

The factor that is deliberately changed in the experiment by the experimenter

Accepted Answer

independent variable

Question 21

Bob wants to know the effect of different temperatures on plant growth. What would be the experimental group?

Accepted Answer

Plant grown at high temperature

Question 22

Group where all variables are normal and to which the experimental results are compared to

Accepted Answer

control group

Question 23

What organs make up your nervous system?

Accepted Answer

Brain, spinal cord, and nerves

Question 24

The change in a population of living things over long periods of time called...

Accepted Answer

evolution

Question 25

Which is an example of a human organ?

Accepted Answer

Small intestine

Question 26

Bob wants to know the effect of different temperatures on plant growth. What would be the control group?

Accepted Answer

Plant grown at an average room temperature

Question 27

What is the basic unit of all matter

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Atom

Question 28

What body system takes nutrients and oxygen to cells and carbon dioxide and waste from cells?

Accepted Answer

Circulatory

Question 29

which lists the levels of organization from MOST to LEAST complex?

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Organism, Organ System, Organ, Tissue

Question 30

Which body system creates a frame that both supports and protects the body?

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Skeletal

Question 31

The changes in an organism through its life are called...

Accepted Answer

development

Question 32

Which is the most complex level of organization listed?

Accepted Answer

Organ System

Question 33

Which system rids the body of pathogens (like viruses and bacteria)?

Accepted Answer

Immune

Question 34

Which 2 systems work together to break down nutrients and then transport them to the body?

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Digestive and Circulatory

Question 35

Which lists the levels of organization from LEAST to MOST complex

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Atom, Molecule, Organelle, Cell

Question 36

What is a real world example of positive feedback?

Accepted Answer

ethylene gas production by fruit

Biology Basics Review

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Biology Basics Review

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