Introduction to Biology Vocabulary

What is the term for the adjustment of organisms to their environment in order to improve their chances at survival in that environment?

• Adaptation

• Migration

• Mutation

• Extinction

What is the term for the binding of molecules that are NOT similar to one another?

• Adhesion

• Cohesion

• Fusion

• Diffusion

What is the name of a virus that infects and replicates in bacterial cells?

• Bacteriophage

• Retrovirus

• Viroid

• Prion

What is the term for the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem?

• Biodiversity

• Photosynthesis

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

What is the study of life called?

• Biology

• Geology

• Physics

• Astronomy

What is the term for the binding of molecules that are the SAME?

• Cohesion

• Adhesion

• Diffusion

• Osmosis

What is the term for the parts that do not change during an experiment and remain the same between experimental and control groups?

• Constant

• Variable

• Hypothesis

• Observation

What is the variable that is being measured in the experiment called?

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

• Controlled variable

• Extraneous variable

What is the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth?

• Evolution

• Photosynthesis

• Metamorphosis

• Respiration

What is the term for any process that living things use to actively maintain fairly stable conditions necessary for survival?

• Homeostasis

• Photosynthesis

• Metamorphosis

• Fermentation