Properties of Life
the building blocks of life; the smallest living unit
What are cells?
often referred to using the phrase "survival of the fittest"
What is natural selection?
often referred to (oversimplified) as an educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
the metric unit for length
What is the meter?
A prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair
What is a bias?
the passing of traits from a parent to offspring
What is heredity?
a change in the inherited traits of a species over time
What is evolution?
a controlled test to evaluate a hypothesis
What is a scientific experiment?
it takes 100 of these metric units for length to be equivalent to a meter
What is the centimeter?
When averages taken across different groups contradict overall averages
What is Simpson's Paradox?
when an organism reacts to the environment it is in
the study of interactions between living and nonliving aspects of an environment
What is accuracy?
The metric unit of measure for liquid volume
What is the liter?
When an error is made in the way that results are disseminated (ex. only positive results are reported)
What is a reporting bias?
the sum total of all the chemical reactions in an organism
What is metabolism?
the web of interactions in a community
when a series of measurements are continually close to one another or grouped together
What is precision?
This metric prefix is used to represent on billionth of a unit.
What is the prefix nano?
a type of observational bias that occurs when people only search for something in the most convenient place to look
What is the streetlight effect?
the maintenance of a stable internal environment in spite of changes in the external environment
What is homeostasis?
the current rate of extinction that is more than 1,000 times the background rate of extinction due to evolution
a set of related hypotheses that have been tested and confirmed many times
What is a scientific theory?
this metric prefix is used then you wish to represent ten of the base unit such as ten meters or ten liters
What is the prefix deka?
A type of bias that may occur during the interpretation of study data when researchers, consciously or unconsciously, look for information or patterns in their data that confirm the ideas or opinions that they already hold
What is confirmation bias?