Module 1 Summary

1. Four characteristics of life:

a. All life forms contain , which is called
b. All life forms have a method by which they from the
surroundings and convert it into .
c. All life forms in their surroundings and to those changes.
d. All life forms .

2. DNA provides the necessary to take a bunch of lifeless chemicals and turn them into an .

3. can be split into two categories: (1) , which involves using energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures and (2) , which involves breaking down chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks.

4. The vast majority of energy that sustains life comes from . use that energy to make food for themselves via a process called . Consumers get energy from the producers by . Consumers can be split into three categories: (which eat only plants), (which eat only non plants), and (which eat plants and non plants). The energy of dead producers and consumers is recycled back into creation by .

Producers are often called , the Greek roots of which literally mean "self-feeder". Consumers and decomposers are often called , which literally means "other-feeder".

6. Living organisms are equipped with structures called , which receive information about their surroundings. God's creation is always , which is why these structures are necessary for survival.

In asexual reproduction, the characteristics and traits inherited by the offspring are, under normal circumstances, to the parent. In sexual reproduction, under normal circumstances, the offspring's traits and characteristics are some of each parent's traits and characteristics. When occur, the offspring can possess traits that are incredibly different from those of the parent or parents.

8. In the scientific method, the scientist starts by the world around him. He then forms a to explain some aspect of how the world functions. He then in an attempt to test his . If a large amount of confirms the , it becomes a , which is tested with even more . If it continues to be confirmed over several generations, it might become a .

9. Scientists once believed that life could spring from nonliving things. This was called , and it was refuted in the mid 1800s by . The story of how the scientific community believed in it for so long demonstrates that science has .

10. The newest version of spontaneous generation is called , and it claims that long ago, very simple life forms appeared through .

11. The groups used in our classification scheme, from largest to smallest are:
, , , , , , and .

12. The five kingdoms we use in the course are: , , , , and .

13. A cell with no membrane-bounded organelles is , while one with membrane-bounded organelles is a cell. Members of kingdom Monera are composed of cells.

14. A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units is called a .

15. A series of questions that is designed to classify organisms is called a biological .

16. When we call wolves "Canis lupus," we are using .

17. In the three domain system of classification, the three basic groups are , , and . Members of kingdom Monera are placed in either or , and all of the other kingdoms are placed in .

18. A creationist taxonomy scheme that attempts to classify organisms based on the kind of organisms that God made during creation is called .

19. Multicellular autotrophs are typically placed in the kingdom .

20. Single-celled creatures made of eukaryotic cells are placed in kingdom .

21. Multicellular consumers are typically placed in kingdom .

22. Decomposers made of eukaryotic cells are mostly found in kingdom .

Organisms made of prokaryotic cells are found in kingdom .