Exam 1: Invitation to Biology

Evolution has been tested in various ways. Genetic, fossil, anatomical, physiological, and behavioral studies all confirm that evolution is the mechanism of the origin of species. Thus, in science evolution is considered a scientific ____.

The level of organization that encompasses all regions of Earth's crust, waters, and atmosphere in which organisms live is known as ____.

The variable(s) in the 2005 peacock butterfly experiment is(are) the ____.

Error bars on a graph indicate ____.

In the 2005 peacock butterfly experiment, what was the conclusion?

What are the simplest types of eukaryotes?

A scientific theory ____.

In the experiment with peacock butterflies, the working hypothesis is that ____.

Why do scientists typically design experiments that will yield quantitative results?

Members of which group(s) can be single-celled producers?

Taxonomists today tend to group organisms into the same category based on similar ____.

What is the process by which a producer uses light energy to make sugars from carbon dioxide and water?

The final step in the scientific method for a scientist is ____.

The transmission of DNA to offspring is referred to as ____.

After rigorous statistical analyses have shown a very low likelihood (usually 5% or less) of a result having occurred by chance alone, the result is said to be ____.

Which of the following is a basic component of all of the others?

In 1610, which scientist was imprisoned for publishing evidence that the Earth orbits the sun?

Energy flow is one-way because ____.

In the Olestra experiment conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the people who ate the Olestra potato chips were the ____.

A population is composed of individuals of ____.