BIOL 101 Guided Reading Questions GRQs Purpose These Guided Reading Questions GRQs are designed to help you identify the key concepts in each reading assignment and provide you with a structure to take notes and check your understanding Learning biology requires your time and attention Before each class session you will be asked to read from your textbook and answer questions online Modified Mastering Biology to assess how well you understand concepts before coming to lecture These GRQs will help you prepared in a comprehensive and efficient manner How to answer the GRQs Research shows that highlighting text and re outlining the textbook in your notes is not an effective way to learn You may choose to answer GRQs as you read or you may choose to answer these questions after you read an assigned section Do not wait until right before an exam to answer GRQs Do use the completed GRQs as a study guide for the exam s GRQs why bother We know how the brain works Learning requires repeated interaction with the concepts you are trying to master These GRQs are designed to give you a structure to not only help you read the textbook but to also study a little bit every day Research shows this strategy increases the long term retention of the material and likelihood of success There is a strong relationship between how much you invest time and attention in this class and your academic performance SOME USEFUL WORD ROOTS FOR BIOLOGY As we go through the semester can you put some words we use next to these word roots If you think of any I am missing let me know di or dy two bi two ose sugar ase enzyme poly many mono one eu true kary kernel nucleus pro before phobic fearing philic loving endo within ex out lysis break apart pseudo false hypo low hyper high excessive allo other glyco sugar an without aero air oxygen oxy oxygen hemi half homo same hetero different pheno show or see photo light auto self troph feed hydro water morph form or structure co together intra within inter between de remove 1 Guided Reading Q s GRQs Do these before the Mastering Assignment Exploring Life and the Process of Science Read Chapter 1 Reading objectives you can use these statements later to study in a more open ended way Define the properties of life Describe the components of hypothesis driven science including controlled and observational studies Explain and give examples of the major themes in biology such as evolution flow of information structure and function transformation of matter and energy interactions within and between systems 1 How would you know if something was alive Why is a rock not alive What are the characteristics that define all life Things that are alive reproduce grow and develop respond to their environment use energy regulate to their environment and adapt Living things are also composed of cells A rock cannot do any of these things therefore it is non living What is the smallest unit of life A cell Of note most biologists do not think viruses are alive because they cannot grow process energy and regulate But within a host like you they can replicate and evolve so they are a grey area If you are interested in this do some google searches on are viruses alive and see some of the debate 2 Arrange these words in a correct order community cell organism organ system biosphere molecule tissue organelle population organ ecosystem Biosphere ecosystem community population organism organ system tissue cell organelle molecule Consider the individual properties and uses for a bucket a piece of rope or a wheel What happens when you put them together in a system does a larger function emerge Yes they all are pieced together and work together to bring the bucket up or put it down Similarly individual tissues can have specific functions but when put together with other tissue types in certain configurations in organs new functions arise This concept is known in biology as emergent properties 3 Review the terms below and define any you need to brush up on Quantitative Data Generally numerical measurements which may be organized into tables and graphs and analyzed with a type of mathematics called statistics Qualitative Data Based on recorded descriptions and observation Hypothesis A testable explanation for a set of observations based on the available data Experiment A scientific test often carried out under controlled conditions that involve manipulating one factor in a system in order to see effects of changing that factor 4 How do we prove a hypothesis is true A hypothesis cannot be proven but rather data can be collected from the experiments to further back a hypothesis and support it How is a theory different from a hypothesis A theory is a very broad assumption that is supported by a large body of evidence while a hypothesis is much smaller scaled and requires many forms of experimentation 5 How is science different from other ways of describing and explaining nature such as philosophy and religion the scientific view of the world is based on fill in rest of this statement from section 1 4 The scientific view of the world is based on hypothesis testing and verifiable evidence 6 What is the main requirement for a scientific hypothesis It must generate predictions that can be tested by experiments or gathering further observations Note this is the end of module question from 1 4 these are also very useful review quiz like questions during reading and studying 7 Module 1 5 shows us the process of science with a controlled experiment What hypothesis is being tested in this experiment If camouflage coloration protects mice from predators then mice that matched their environment would be preyed on less then mice with coloration that didn t match their habitat Define these terms Independent variable A factor whose value is manipulated or changed during an experiment to reveal possible effects on another factor dependent Dependent variable A factor whose variable is measure in an experiment to see whether it is influenced by changes in another factor independent Controlled experiment An experiment in which an experimental group is compared with a control group that varies only in the factor being tested In an ideal controlled experiment what differs between the control and experimental group They ideally differ in only one variable the experiment is designed to test 8 What was the if then prediction statement made by the scientists about the beach mouse If camouflage coloration protects mice from predators
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