MasteringBio Ch. 1 Core Content

Q2: Drag to appropriate place. A property of all living things:

Complex, but well-ordered, structure Responds to the environment Composed of one or more cells Reproduces its own kind Takes in, converts, and expels energy Populations evolve over time

Q2. Not a property of all living things:

Requires another individual to reproduce Individuals evolve over time Eats other organisms to gain energy Composed of many cells

Which of these is a key feature of the scientific method?

Scientific hypotheses must be testable.

Q3. Drag the terms to their correct locations in this concept map about evolution.

a. diversity b. natural selection c. living species d. ancestral species e. heritable variations in a population f. greater reproductive success g. evolutionary adaptations

Q1: Fill in the blank - The scientific study of life, called ____, can be organized ..... etc.

biology emergent properties structure and function chemical nutrients evolution natural selection

What is the fundamental unit of life?

cell

What name is given to a proposed explanation for a set of observations?

hypothesis

In his book The Origin of Species, Darwin argued that species living today descended from a succession of ancestral species. What mechanism did Darwin propose to explain how evolution occurs?

natural selection

What is the basis of natural selection?

unequal reproductive success