BSC1005

• What are the 8 characteristics that define life in a living organism?

  Order, sensitivity or response to stimuli, reproduction, adaptation, growth and development, regulation/homeostasis, energy processing, and evolution.
• Chemotaxis


  When tiny bacteria move toward or away from chemicals.
• Phototaxis


  Chemotaxis but with light.
• Science - A specific way of learning and knowing about the natural world
• The smallest unit of organization that can be considered a living thing is a cell.
• Carl Linneus grouped organisms by similarilty of physical characteristics.
• Inductive Reasoning - Uses related observations to make a general conclusion
• Deductive Reasoning - Uses a general law or principle to make a conclusion
• Basic Science - Used on for knowledge
• Applied Science - Used to solve real-world problems
• Biome - Large-scale community of organisms, primarily defined on land by the dominant plant types that exist in geographic regions of the planet with similar climatic conditions.
• Ecosystem - Community of living organisms and their non-living environment.