ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSEUNIT I.

WHAT IS BIOLOGY?
Text 1.1 The Characteristics Of Life
OLEH :
YULFI INDRIANI
NOVIA TUZARA
MIFTAHUL MAGHFIROH

DOSEN PENGAMPU:
SUSI SUSANTI,M.Pd

KELOMPOK 1
Exercise A.
A. a substance in general that everything in the world consists of ( matter ).
B. a useless material or substance ( chemikal )
C. Natural world in which people and animals live ( environment )
D. The smallest unit of living matter ( cell )
E. Outer form or outline ( shape )
F. A form of energy ( heat )
G. Substance used in chemistry ( waste product )
H. Something important or typical of a place or thing ( feature )
Your essential assignments
I. Quick check
a. Decide if the following statements are true or false.
1) The earliest people must have known about plant or
they would have died ( false )
2) The microscope allowed biologists to treat illnesses
( false )
3) Darwin’s theory was one of the most important in
biology ( true )
4) The study of biology has not changed at all over the
centuries ( true )
B. What is the difference between :
1) The growth of a crystal and the growth of a plant
Crystals growth is the main stage of the
crystallization process, and the addition of new
atoms,ions,or polymer strings into the crystals lattice
arrangement.
Plant growth is the result of various physiological
processes,involving genotypic factors that interact in
the plant body with environmental factor.
2. The movement of a cloud and the movement of an
animal?
Clouds are visible masses of water droplest of frozen
crystals hanging in the atmosphere above the earthis
surface or the surface of another planet
Motion in animal is animal movement which is the
action of animals to move plces in various ways, in
cluding walking, swimming, melomatoes and flying
. Fill in the missing words
 Term ( verb )
 Respond
 Transform
 Move
 Develop
 Respire
 Create
 Define
 Noun
 Response
 Transformation
 Movement
 Development
 .
 Creat
 .
III. Use monolingual English dictionary and write down what could

the words given below mean:

nutrient; sunlight; poison; breakdown;

harmful
V. Match the words with their definitions:

N word Definition
o
1. individual A very strict and difficult to change
2. horticulture B the protection of natural environment
3. rigid C the natural world in which people, animals and
plants live
4. predict D D.to say that sth a person has said or written is
wrong or untruthful
5. conservation E a single person or thing, considered separately
from the class or group to which he, she, or it
belongs
6. contradict F to say that sth will happen in the future
7. variable G the art, practice or science of growing fruit,
flowers and vegetables
8. environment H a thing or quantity that can change and be
changed
Answer

Individual E

Horticulture G
rigid
A
predict
D
conservation
contradict B
variable F
Environment C
H
VI. Find synonyms among the pool of
words:
Pool of words Synonyms
1)1.determine/2.start/3.change/4.alte Determine =define
r/5.define/6.begin Start= begin
Change=alte
2)1.breath/2.initiate/3.happen/4.respi Brearth=respiration
ration/5.occur/6.start Initiate=start
Happen=occus
3) 1.investigation /2.dimension Investigation= research
/3.research /4.size Dimension=size

4) 1.due Due to=because

to/2.possess/3.ruin/4.because Possess=have
of/5.have/6.destroy Ruin=destroy
VII. Answer the following questions. Use all information given before:
1. Have scientists provided a universally accepted definition of life?
 Although they have failed to provide a universally accepted definition, most scientists agree that all living things share
certain basic characteristics
2. What is a living thing?
 Non-living systems may show some of the characteristics of living things, but life is the combination of all these
characteristics.
3. What is a non-living thing?
 inanimate and immovable objects. Inanimate objects don't need to be treated. Inanimate objects can be divided into
three, namely in the form of solid, liquid, and gas
4. What can living things do that non-living things can not?
5. What do cells contain?
 Cells themselves contain small organelles that carry out specific functions
6. What does genetic information determine?
 Recent advances, especially in genetic engineering, have dramatically affected agriculture, medicine, veterinary science,
and industry, and our world view has been revolutionized by modern developments in ecology.
7. How is growth brought about?

8. Can heat be used to drive biological processes?

9. How do living things acquire energy and nutrients?
 Living things have to renew their energy stores periodically from their environment, to continue transforming energy
and to replace the `wasted energy`. They also have to obtain nutrients – chemicals that make up their bodies or help
them carry out their biological processes. Living things acquire energy and nutrients by feeding, either by eating other
organisms, or by making their own food out of simple inorganic chemicals using energy from sunlight or from chemical
reactions
10. What do living things need to stay alive?
 energy and nutrients
11. What does the degree of responsiveness depend on?
 energy and nutrients
12. How do movements of living things differ from those of non-living?

13. What is homeostasis?

 Homeostasis is a feature of all living systems, from a single cell to a whole biosphere (the part of Earth containing life)
VIII. Answer the following questions. Use all information given
before:
1. Biologists are making A those of non-living things by being
discoveries energy-requiring processes arising
from within cells
2. Growth is accompanied B one of the main features of living
by things.
3. DNA contains genetic C are transforming one form of energy
information which into another.
4. Movements of living D all living things share certain basic
things characteristics.
differ from
5. Reproduction is E chemicals are packed into highly
organized structures.
6. To stay alive living thing F an increase in complexity.
7. Most scientists think G determines the characteristics of an
that organism, including how it will grow
and develop.
8. In living things H which will affect all our lives.
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