NOTE: These study guides are intended for you to read the sections of the
textbook BEFORE you come to class. Experience has shown that those students
who take this seriously have a head-start and inevitably do better on Unit Tests.
HONORS BIOLOGY UNIT ONE STUDY GUIDE
Name
Period
Read 1.1 p. 2
Define: biology
List the 7 properties and processes of life and give an example:
1.___________________________________________________________________________________
2.__________________________________________________________________________________
3.___________________________________________________________________________________
4.__________________________________________________________________________________
5.__________________________________________________________________________________
6.___________________________________________________________________________________
7.___________________________________________________________________________________
Read 1.2 p. 3
List the following hierarchy of life’s organization in order from largest (1) to smallest (11).
Then give an example of each.
Organelle____________________________________ Organ______________________________
Organ system________________________________
Tissue______________________________
Biosphere___________________________________
Ecosystem__________________________
Population___________________________________ Community_________________________
Molecule____________________________________ Cell________________________________
Organism____________________________________
Compare one level of life and describe how the level above it shows emergent properties:
Read 1.3 p. 4
The lowest level of structure of life that can perform all the activities required for life = ____________
Indicate P = prokaryotic cell and E = eukaryotic cell:
_____example is bacteria
_____examples are plants, protists
_____evolved about 1.5 bya
_____contain organelles
_____smaller
_____has a nucleus
Honors Biology Unit One Study Guide p. 2
Read 1.4 p. 5
Explain how each of these pairs of terms shows interaction of organisms with their environment:
a. Producers and consumers
b. Consumers and decomposers
Read 1.5 p. 6
There is a universal genetic material. What is this molecule called (give 3 letters)?___________
MATCH THESE TERMS:
_____units of inheritance
_____long molecules of DNA
_____building blocks of DNA
A. chromosomes
B. genes
C. nucleotides
Why can we use bacterial DNA to make human DNA?
Read 1.6 pp. 6-7 and pp. 308-9
Biologists have named about how many species? _______million
What is the branch of biology that names and classifies species?____________________________
Who devised this system?___________________________________(see pp. 308-9)
What is phylogeny?
What makes up the two word names of binomial nomenclature?________________________________
What rules are used to write the scientific names correctly? (at least 3)
Put these classification divisions in order from largest to smallest:
Genus kingdom family phylum class species order
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Fill in the following chart of the three domains: (also pp. 326-327 ) and (Barron’s book pp. 216-219)
Archaea
Eubacteria
Eukarya
Prokaryote or
Eukaryote?
Cell Wall
Composition
Examples
Honors Biology Unit 1 Study Guide p. 3
Read 1.7 pp. 8-9
Fill in the missing words:
-Darwin wrote the book____________________________________________________ used to explain
his idea of evolution.
-His idea was that the mechanism for evolution was __________________ ______________________.
-Darwin’s idea that descendants (living today) of ancestral species formed by _________________ with
____________________________.
-List at least two adaptations to each of these organisms:
GROUND PANGOLIN
KILLER WHALE
Read 1.8 p. 9
Go back to page 1 and make 3 quantitative observations of the picture of the lemurs.
Now make 3 qualitative observations:
Label the following as D = deductive or I = inductive reasoning:
_____logic from general to specific
_____specific observations to generalizations
_____”Animals are made of cells, and plants are made of cells, so all organisms are made of cells.”
_____If all organisms are made of cells, then bacteria and fungi are made of cells.
How is a theory different than a hypothesis?
Read 1.9 pp. 10-11
What two point must be followed to be a hypothesis?_________________________________________
In the mimicry experiment with snakes identify the following:
Prediction:____________________________________________________________________________
Experimental group:____________________________________________________________________
Control group:________________________________________________________________________
Did the data agree or disagree with the prediction?___________________________________________
Why was there a control group?__________________________________________________________
Read 1.10-11 page 12
Identify as S = science and T = technology:
_____discovered the structure of DNA
_____invented the PCR to make copies of DNA for forensics
_____should we clone humans?
_____carbon can bond to four other atoms
COPY THE CONCEPT MAP ON PAGE 13 ON ANOTHER PAPER AND FILL IN THE MISSING PARTS:
Honors Biology Unit One Study Guide p. 4
Read Barron’s Chapter 17 pp. 387-394 and the Campbell Textbook Chapter 35 pp. 698-719 to match
the following terms to their descriptions:
1._____ducklings bond during a critical period
A. migration
2._____agressive behavior
B. altruism
3._____trial and error learning (+/- effect)
C. territoriality
4._____environmental cues that cause a response
D. monogamous
5._____defending the area in which you live
E. foraging
6._____modification of behavior due to experiences
F. cognitive map
7._____come to ignore the repeated stimulus
G. behavior
8._____an unchangeable series of actions by a specific response H. dominance hierarchies
9._____behavior under genetic control
I. kin selection
10._____food-obtaining behavior
J. optimal foraging theory
11._____apply past experiences to novel situations
K. social learning
12._____sacrifice itself for the family
L. promiscuous
13._____memories of landmarks
M. cooperation
14._____no strong pair-bonds
N. imprinting
15._____feeding behavior for maximum energy gain
O. problem solving
16._____pecking order
P. innate behavior
17._____working as a group
Q. spatial learning
18._____random movement in response to stimulus
R. associative learning (repeat/avoid)
19._____response directed to or away from stimulus
S. agnostic behavior
20._____ bond between only one male and one female
T. habituation
21._____ regular back-and-forth movement between two
U learning
geographic areas
V. FAP’s
22. _____observing the behavior of others (birds, monkeys)
W. taxis
23._____internal representation, code, of surroundings’ objects X. stimuli
24._____an action carried out by muscles or glands under the
Y. kinesis
control of the nervous system to response to an environmental cue
25._____helping close relatives (share genes with)
Write the behavior for each example below:
a. _____________________Lorenz’s goslings followed him just after they hatched
b. _____________________digger wasp flies to the pinecone circle even if they are moved
c. _____________________vervet monkeys give alarm calls when predators appear
d. _____________________a chimp learns how to crush a nut with a rock from watching others
e. _____________________honeybees dance to show the location of the food source
f. _____________________a goose uses its bill to bring an egg back to the nest in the same way
each time
g. ____________________the alpha hen is the first to the water, food, and roosting sites
h. ____________________non-reproductive naked mole may sacrifice himself to the snake to save
the queen mole