AP:Bio vocab quiz 1

Levels of Biological Organization

the hierarchical structure of life, arranged from the smallest chemical building blocks to the entire global ecosystem(biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism, organ, tissue, cell, organelle, molecule.)

Emergent Properties

The arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases

Systems Biology

The exploration of a biological system by analyzing the interactions among its parts

Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic

Prokaryotic: no nucleus (lacks a nucleus or other membrane-enclosed organelles)

Eukaryotic: nucleus (contains membrane-enclosed organelles)

Gene Expression

The entire process by which the information in a gene directs the manufacture of a cellular product

Bioinformatics

The use of computational tools to store, organize, and analyze the huge volume of data that results from high-throughput methods

Natural Selection

The natural environment consistently "selects" for the propagation of certain traits among naturally occurring variant traits in the population.

The 3 Domains of Life

Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya (BAE)

Evolution

The concept that the organisms living on Earth today are the modified descendants of common ancestors

Model organism

A species that is easy to grow in the lab and lends itself particularly well to the questions being investigated