Scientific Methodology
A scientific explanation that can be tested with further investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
The smallest unit of an organism that is considered living.
What are cells?
Scientists follow this when conducting experiments.
What is the scientific method?
The cell from 1 parent produces the 1st cell of a new organism.
What is asexual reproduction?
Well-tested explanation for a range of phenomena.
What is a theory?
The act of noticing and describing events or processes in careful, mannerly way.
What is observation?
Cells from 2 different parents untie to produce the 1st cell of a new organism.
What is sexual reproduction?
These are representations, simulations, images, etc. that help us visualize and summarize ideas.
What are models?
The genetic material that organisms inherit from their parents.
What is DNA?
Parts of the Earth where living things are found.
What is the biosphere?
The variable that is deliberately changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The relatively stable internal physical and chemical conditions that organisms maintain.
What is homeostasis?
A personal view or standpoint.
What is bias?
Living things obtain and use materials and energy through these chemical processes.
What is metabolism?
Data that is descriptive and involves observations that cannot usually be measured.
What is qualitative data?
Data that can be can be obtained by counting or measuring.
What is quantitative data?
Multicellular organisms go through this process as they mature, more complex than growth.
What is development?
Group of people, who are similar to scientists, that design and build machines and structures.
What are engineers?
What is evolve?
Scientists use this common system of measurement so experiments can be tested and repeated everywhere.
What is the metric system?
The variable that is observed in an experiment and changes in response to the independent variable.
What is dependent variable?
A signal that comes from the outside environment.
What is external stimuli?
Scientists share information with this group before releasing new information to the general public.
A simple increase in size.
What is growth?
The two types of groups in an experiment.
What are the control group and experimental group?