Signs of Life
Moving, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition...
How do you know something is alive?
Ruth Graves Wakefield invented these. It was mentioned on the bulletin board outside the classroom.
What were chocolate chip cookies? ... Considered a "famous failure".
You read the meniscus.
How do you "read" water in a beaker or graduated cyldinder?
An explanation that, using the scientific method, has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by many different scientists. These are developed after hypotheses have been tested, and experiments have accepted the hypothesis.
What is a theory?
The smallest unit of a living being.
What is a cell?
Plants & Animals.
What types of organisms are biotic? (Alive)
Thermoregulation, control of blood sugar, control of blood pressure...
What are examples of negative feedback in the human body?
Notify the instructor.
What should you do if you break glass in the lab?
An educated guess based on known knowledge. "Filling in the blanks."
What is an inference?
Cytoplasm, golgi apparatus, nucleus, E.R., and more...
What are organelles?
ALL the chemical reactions that take place in a living being.
What is metabolism?
This type of experiment happens when a scientist controls everything except the independent variable, which is intentionally changed to see the effect.
What is a controlled experiment?
What is the name of that thing that goes over the microscope slide? (Above your specimen).
What is a cover slip?
Data described as qualities... like color, size, shape, etc.
What is qualitative data?
It performs all the same processes which the living organism that contains cells does.
Why is the cell analogous to the human body?
They all have cells.
What do every living being have?
Data that doesn't fit nice and neatly in with the rest of the data.
What is an outlier?
The "thing" the scientists purposely manipulates to test it's effect.
What is an independent variable?
An educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
The thing that makes up tissues in the human body.
What are cells?
Viruses.
There can be one, several, or none.
Statistics.
What is the mode?
You might break a glass slide if you do this...
Why should you be careful when adjusting the height of the stage on a microscope?
Something not alive, yet it might contribute to the life of a living being.
What is an abiotic (factor)?
The two "types" of these can be found in both autotrophs and heterotrophs.
What is another way to say "Cells" in a plant and animal?