Scientific Method
The factor that is being tested
What is the Independent Variable?
The maintenance of internal environment
What is Homeostasis?
An organism's role or job in its habitat
What is a Niche?
A neutral pH
What is 7?
Store and transfer genetic information
What are nucleic acids?
A possible explanation to a question
What is Hypothesis?
Reproduces by itself
What is Asexual Reproduction?
Type of symbiosis where one organism benefits and one is neither benefited nor harmed
What is Commensalism?
A molecule that reacts with water
What is Hydrophillic?
The monomer of proteins
What are Amino Acids?
A general statement of why things work based on hypotheses that have been tested many times
What is a Theory?
Living things change over time as a result of their environment
Succession that occurs on existing soil
What is Secondary Succession?
When water molecules bond to other substances
Insulation and stores energy
What are functions of Lipids?
The steps of the scientific method in order
State the Problem
Generate Hypothesis
Do an experiment
Analyze Data
Conclusion
Share Results
An organism changing in order to survive
What is Adaptation to the environment?
The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can hold based on its available supplies
A molecule that does not react with water
The monomer of carbohydrates
What are monosaccharides?
The removal of cells from a plant or animal and allowing them to grow in an artificial environment
What is Cell Culture?
The eight characteristics of life
Made of Cells; Reproduction; Universal genetic code; growth and development; obtains and uses materials and energy; Responds to environment; Homeostasis; Evolution
This is a stable ecosystem with little to no change
When water climbs up tubes against the force of gravity
What is Capillary Action?
The polymer of proteins
What are Peptides?