Biology Unit 1

What is Biology?

• The study of life

• The study of ology

• The study of plants

What is a microscope?

• a tool that is used to measure how long something is

• a tool that is used to weigh something

• a tool that is used to enlarge an image

The change in living things over time

• growing

• evolution

• adaptation

An inherited trait that gives an advantage to an individual organism

• adaptation

• evolution

• biology

Genetic material in all organisms

• DNA

• evolution

• genomics

A segment of DNA that stores genetic information

• genomics

• DNA

• gene

Study of comparison of genomes

• genomics

• genes

• DNA

What is the variable that you control in an experiment?

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

What is the variable that changes because of what you do?

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

How many characteristics of life are there?

• 2

• 8

• 3