Scientific Method
An educated guess about what an experiment's results will be
What is a hypothesis?
The metric unit in which you measure volume
What is liters?
What is the eyepiece (or ocular)?
All living things are made of these basic units.
What are cells?
The study of life.
What is biology?
The original condition, or the untested variable
What is the control?
0.25 kilograms is this many grams.
What is 250 grams?
You should begin viewing a slide on this power.
What is low power?
This genetic material holds all of the information about an organism.
What is DNA?
This is collected and analyzed during an experiment.
What is data?
You should go back to this step if your conclusion turns out wrong.
What is forming your hypothesis?
A triple beam balance can be used to find this of an object.
What is mass?
This is made by putting a specimen on a slide and adding one drop of water, then covering with a cover slip.
What is a wet mount?
An organism can regulate its internal environment by this mechanism.
What is homeostasis?
A hypothesis tested many times by many people becomes this.
What is a theory?
Conditions that remain the same throughout all tests of an experiment.
What are constants?
12.89 hectometers is equal to this many centimeters.
What is 128,900 centimeters?
An eyepiece has a magnification of 20x and an objective has a magnification of 40x. If this is true, your total magnification is this.
What is 800x?
An organism has the ability to respond to these - in either their internal or external environment - and have a reaction to it.
What are stimuli?
How a slide appears under a microscope, compared to how it appears to the naked eye
What is reversed and upside down?
Jon is testing whether or not drinking Muscle Milk before lifting increases the muscle mass you gain afterward. Jon measures his muscle mass before beginning. He lifts for two weeks, drinking the Milk each day before lifting, then measures his muscle growth. He repeats this without drinking Milk first. In this experiment, the growth of his muscles is this.
What is the dependent variable?
A milliliter is this many times smaller than a kiloliter.
What is one million times?
This is the type of microscope we use - one of the most common kinds.
What is a compound light microscope?
Over time, the best genes are passed on from organism to organism, and small changes can occur in the organisms' DNA.
What is natural selection/evolution?
The largest level of biological organization.
What is the biosphere?