what means the study of life?
Life Science or Biology
This simplifies something in the world to explain, describe, or represent it
model
This is a way for scientists to test the way he thinks something works by examining the effects of one factor at at time.
controlled experiment
This cell does not have a nuclues
prokaryotic
The process of using energy from the sun to turn water and carbon dioxide into glucose
photosynthesis
using moral principals to help people study life science
ethics
information that people collect is called what?
data
The factors in an experiment that change
variables
This cell contains a nucleus
eukaryotic
An animal that lacks a backbone
invertebrate
When Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate from the tree of knowledge
the Fall
This type of data is measurable and usually has number value and unit
quantitative or measured
Animals that make their own food
The movement of molecules across a membrane that requires cells to do WORK
active transport
These are plant hormones that cause them to grow
Auxins
an organisms ability to keep its internal processes stable.
homeostasis
This type of data describes with words
qualitative
animals that cannot make their food
consumers
The process of converting DNA into a protein
translation
An animal with a body temperature that is determined by its environment
ectotherm
Name at lease 3 characteristics of life:
organization
energy
growth
reproduction
response
Describe a theory verses a law
The theory is used to explain and a Law describes. A theory has not yet become a Law.
Term for bacteria reproduction (two words)
Binary Fission
The process that cells use to make RNA copies of a gene
transcription
The trait that an organism expresses as determined by its genotype (what you can see)
phenotype