BIOL 1406 - Lecture 1 Exam Review

What are the 7 unifying themes of life?

Answer explanation

Order

Energy Processing

Evolutionary Adaption

Response to Environment

Regulation

Reproduction

Growth & Development

(Triple R, Double E, OG)

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Place the biological organizations in the correct order.

h

g

i

j

f

e

d

c

b

a

Biosphere

Cells

Organs

Populations

Communities

Organelles

Molecules

Tissues

Ecosystems

Organisms

All energy used in metabolism essentially comes from...

• the sun

• the food we eat

• the earth

• plants

• mitochondria

Answer explanation

All energy used for metabolism essential comes from the sun!

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Organize the following options as examples of positive or negative feedback.

Groups:

(a) Positive

,

(b) Negative

• Sweating

• Insulin & Glucagon

• Blood Clotting

• Labor

• Shivering

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Place the steps of protein synthesis in the correct order.

Place the vocabulary word first, then the action occurring right after.

For example: Dancing, -> moving feet, Clapping, -> moving hands,

• translation

• proteins

• transcription

• DNA -> mRNA

• mRNA -> amino acids

Answer explanation

Transcription is DNA -> mRNA

Translation is mRNA -> Amino Acids

Protein Folding is the result of multiple amino acids forming proteins.

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What are the 3 domains? What 4 kingdoms are under 1 of them?

Who was Charles Darwin? Why is he important to biology?

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Match the vocabulary words describing water to their definition.

• Adhesion

• water sticking to other things

• Cohesion

• substance doing the dissolving

• Solute

• substance containing the dissolved particles and the substance doing the dissolving

• Solution

• substance being dissolved

• Solvent

• watering sticking to water

Answer explanation