List the six kingdoms of life. List the 5 basic properties shared by living things.

Identify which basic property is being described below:
Living things have the ability to produce like organisms every generation.
DNA is an organic molecule that stores an organism's genetic information.
Whenever an organism's internal environment begins to vary from its normal, healthy state, a series of complex mechanisms will occur that are designed to bring the internal environment back to normal.
All living things are composed of cells.
Plants utilize energy from the sun. This energy is then passed to other organisms when they ingest the plants.

List the levels of order found in living things, including the levels that describe their relationships with other organisms and the environment. Begin with the simplest level.

What is an emergent property? Provide an example of an emergent property other than the examples given in the section on emergent properties.

List the 5 major themes that unify and explain biology.

Identify which major theme is being described below:
Anciently giraffes had short necks; the modern giraffe has a long neck.
Cell-to-cell signaling within an organism helps to maintain a stable internal environment.
The mitochondria found within animal cells may have been an independent organism at one time.
The bill of a hummingbird is uniquely suited to gathering nectar from flowers.
Although energy can be passed from one organism to another, some of the energy will be lost as heat.

Fill in the blanks in the following statements:
A hypothesis is proposed after making careful .
A possible explanation for an observation is a(n) .
The test of a hypothesis is a(n) .
The expected consequence of a hypothesis is a(n) .
Any factor that may influence a process is called a(n) .
The test in which one variable is altered is called the test.
The test in which no variables are altered is called the experiment.
Science can never something is true.
Science can only determine what is .
A hypothesis that has been tested many times and failed to be disproven is often called a .

An experiment is described below. Read the experiment, then identify each aspect of the Scientific Process that is asked for.
"You notice that the flowers in the east corner of your yard seem to grow taller than the flowers in the west corner. You decide to set up an experiment. You also realize that the soil might be different in each corner, that the neighbors children often throw balls over the west corner, and that you do not always water each corner at the same time, or with the same amount of water. You believe, however, that the amount of sunlight each corner receives is the determining factor - that the east corner receives more sunlight.. You decide to make two garden plots, one in each corner of the yard. You put identical soil in each plot, you put a mesh cover over both plots, and you give one gallon of water to each plot at 8am every day. You then measure the flowers every night at 6pm for 2 months. After two months, you find that the flowers in both plots are the same height."
What was your hypothesis?
What was your prediction?
List all the variables you identified?
What variable did you think made the difference?
Which plot was your experimental group?
Was your hypothesis supported?

Why can science NOT be used to support or deny religious beliefs?
List the 4 theories that unify biology as a science.
What are the three principles of the cell theory?
Who discovered the structure of DNA? in what year?
How does a molecule of DNA store information?
A particular sequence of nucleotides in a DNA molecules will store information for a particular trait. What is this sequence of nucleotides called?
Do all living things store genetic information in DNA?
Your text states that DNA "encodes" molecules of protein and RNA. What does "encode" mean?
Summarize the Gene Theory in one sentence.
Who advanced the Theory of Heredity? in what year?
Summarize the Theory of Heredity in one sentence.
What does the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance add to the Theory of Inheritance?
The Theory of Evolution says that the diversity we see among living things in the world today is the result of .