Belief that living things came from completely natural processes.
What is naturalism?
Data communicated through words and descriptions
What is Qualitative Data?
Factor that changes in a study
What is an independent variable?
It helps us manage and understand the variety of life in the world.
Why do we classify living things?
What are eukaryotic cells?
Organization
Energy
Growth
Reproduction
Response
What are the characteristics of life?
Data communicated with numbers
What is Quantitative Data?
Idea that scientists use to explain the data that they have collected
What is a scientific theory?
The science of classifying organisms
What is taxonomy?
Observing the same trait in a very different organism.
What is evidence of a common designer?
The group in a study that remains unchanged
What is a control group?
Factor in a study that is not changed by scientists
What is a dependent variable?
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
What are the classification levels for organisms?
What are prokaryotic cells?
Cells
What are all living things made of?
Explanation that is based on limited observation
What is a hypothesis?
Using moral principles to help people apply life science in good ways
What is ethics?
They want to show evolutionary relationships and trace them back to a common ancestor.
What are reasons evolutionists want to change the classification system?
Organisms that have many cells
What is multicellular?
An organism's ability to keep internal processes stable.
What is homeomeostasis
Observe
Test
Analyze and Draw Conclusions
Communicate
What are the steps of a controlled experiment?
Simplifies something in the world to explain, describe, or represent it.
What is a scientific model?
What are classification levels for a scientific name of an organism?
Organisms that consume other organisms for energy
What is a heterotroph?