Scientific Terms
The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way?
What is observation
A personal point of view for or against something.
What is bias?
The science that employs scientific methodology to study living things.
What is biology?
A gene that may be carried by one parent, but is not present in the offspring.
What is a recessive gene?
A logical interpretation based on what scientists already know.
What is inference?
What is DNA?
Cells from two different parents unite to produce the first cell of the new organism.
What is sexual reproduction?
A gene that is carried by one parent that is present in the offspring of two parents.
What is a dominant trait?
A tentative scientific explanation that can be tested by further observation or by experimentation.
What is hypothesis.
The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
The new organism has a single parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
A plant turns light into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
All other variables in an experiment that are kept unchanged or controlled.
What is controlled experiment.
An animal that eats bananas
What is a monkey?
Biologists know that the directions for inheritance are carried by a molecule called what?
What is DNA?
The basic unit of matter.
What is an atom?
The variable deliberately changed.
What is the independent variable?
What is Ms. Weaver?
The combination of chemical reactions as it carries out its life processes.
What is metabolism
Strong forces that bind protons and neutrons together form what?
What is a nucleus?