Chapter 01: Biology In The 21st Century

The variety of life

• Biology

• Biosphere

• Biodiversity

Which of the following is NOT an example of quantitative data collected by scientific observations?

• Volume

• Temperature

• Color

The term biosphere refers to the parts of the Earth that contain _____>

• Freshwater environments

• Living Things

• Land masses

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All living things and all the places they are found on the Earth

• Biosphere

• Biodiversity

• Homeostasis

An electron microscope would be the best choice for viewing _____.

• Human Ligaments

• Details of cell structure

• A person's brain activity

Which of the following are most important for an organism to maintain homeostasis?

• Behavior and Negative feedback

• Reproduction and Development

• Interactions with nonliving things

Computer modeling would most likely have to be applied to which of these biological research topics?

• How sugar levels in an athlete's muscles change during exercise

• How West Nile virus might spread among a populaiton

• How drug to treat cancer affects laboratory rats that have cancer

If you repeat an experiment and the results are very different from the results you got the first time, the next step would be to _____.

• Repeat the experiment

• Try a different experiment

• Trust the second result

Which aspect of life on Earth are accounted for by evolution?

• Diversity and Unity

• Interaction and Conflict

• Lack of genetic and physical change

In an experiment, the condition that is manipulated by a scientist is the _____.

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable

• Constant