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Unit 1 Study Guide

Biology 1 Honors
You can either do this electronically or complete this on a sheet of paper. You will show me a completed
study guide the day of the test. DONE ON PAPER
Suggestions on how to use this study guide:
Note that copying and pasting answers is not going to help you retain information. Handwriting answers will help you
much more than typing or copy & pasting.
A. First, answer questions that you know.
○ Mark these in a color (such as green) to know that you feel good about it, and check your answers later.
○ If you ended up getting it wrong, mark it in red!
B. Second, answer questions that you think you know but you are not sure of the answer.
○ Mark these in a color (such as yellow) telling yourself to go back and check.
○ When you go back and check, make a note (a written note, changing the color) about if
you got it right or wrong.
C. Third, find questions that you do not know the answer to.
○ Mark these in a color (such as red) so you can prioritize them for your studying.
○ Look up and find the answers.

Prioritize them according to your color scheme: red first, then yellow, then green. That way you focus on
what you need to study, instead of studying what you already know.

Characteristics of Life
1. What are the characteristics of life?
2. What does homeostasis mean?
3. What is an example of homeostasis?
4. What are the levels of organization, in order? (Word bank: atom, cell, molecule, organ, organelle, organism, organ
system, tissue)
5. True or False: Viruses are made out of cells.
6. What is the basic structure of a virus?
7. Why do most biologists consider viruses to be nonliving? Provide evidence.

Scientific Method and Experimental Design


8. What are the steps of the scientific method?
9. What is the difference between quantitative data and qualitative data? Give examples of each one.
10. What is an observation?
11. What is an inference?
12. Define or describe each part of experimental design:
a. Hypothesis:
b. Independent variable:
■ Levels of the IV:
● Experimental group(s):
● Control group(s):
c. Dependent variable:
d. Constants
e. Trials:
13. Why is it important to only have one independent variable in an experiment, and to keep everything else constant?
14. What does “theory” mean in science, and how is it different from the everyday use of the word theory?
15. What is the difference between a hypothesis, a theory, and a law?

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