Benjamin Moy, freshman, Faith Christian School
Science – Biology – Module 1 Study Guide
August 24, 2012
1. a. Metabolism – The process by which an organism takes energy from its surroundings in order to use that energy to sustain its growth.
b. Photosynthesis – The process by which a plant uses the light from the sun in order to produce its own food; a by-product of photosynthesis is oxygen.
c. Herbivores – Organisms that eat solely plants and vegetation
d. Carnivores – Organisms that eat solely meat or another animal’s flesh
e. Omnivores – Organisms that eat both plants and meat
f. Producers – Organisms that produce food for themselves
g. Consumers – Organisms that eat other organisms for food
h. Decomposers – Organisms that break down the dead remains of others for nutrition
i. Autotrophs – Organisms that are able to produce their own food
j. Heterotrophs – Organisms that eat other organisms for food
k. Receptors – Special senses that allow a living organisms to sense changes in its surroundings.
l. Asexual reproduction – Reproduction that occurs with only one organism
m. Sexual reproduction – Reproduction that occurs due to two organisms, one male and one woman
n. Inheritance – Genes or traits passed from both parents to their offspring
o. Mutation – An abrupt change between the parents and offspring
p. Hypothesis – An educated guess that attempts to answer a question or explain something
q. Theory – A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data
r. Scientific law – A theory that has been tested and proven with generations of data
s. Microorganisms – Living creatures that are too small to be seen by the naked eye
t. Abiogenesis – The theory that due to time, chemicals evolved into living organisms due to random changes and variations
u. Prokaryotic cell – A cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound organelles
v. Eukaryotic cells – Cells that have distinct, membrane-bound organelles
w. Species – A unit of one or more organisms that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units
x. Binomial Nomenclature – Naming an organism by its genus and species name
y. Taxonomy – The science of classifying organisms
2. All living organisms must contain DNA, sense and adapt to their surroundings, reproduce, and have a method of extracting energy from their surroundings.
3. heterotroph; consumer
4. sensing changes in its surrounding and adapting to those changes
5. asexually
6. Science has its limitations and cannot prove anything.
7. A hypothesis is presented. After much experimentation, a hypothesis becomes a theory. After the theory has been tested and is consistent with generations of evidence and data and experimentation, the theory becomes a scientific law.
8. Science cannot prove the origin or life; however, the Bible can. The Bible says that God created all things, for God is the Creator of all things. He is the true origin of life.
9. the Bible
10. Spontaneous generation and abiogenesis are the same because they both believe that life can come by chemicals through random processes; however, life cannot come from the chemicals, because who made those chemicals?
11. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
12. Kingdom Protista
13. Kingdom Monera
14. Mushrooms, Kingdom Fungi, using numbers 1,3,5 from the biological key
