Terms
A personal opinion for or against something
What is a bias?
A logical interpretation based on what scientists already know.
What is an inference?
True or False:
Scientists do not review and revise current knowledge when new evidence arises.
What is false?
The directions for inheritance are carried by what molecule?
What is DNA?
This field of biology studies weather patterns and other global impacts.
What is Global Ecology?
Testing a hypotheses often involves designing experiments. What is the factor that is observed and measured in an experiment?
What is a dependent variable?
True or False:
Science involves collecting and organizing data about the natural world.
What is true?
Which two statements are true?
1. Viruses are made up of proteins, nucleic acids, and sometimes lipids.
2. Viruses do not respond to changes in the environment around them.
3. Viruses contain genetic information in the form of nucleic acids.
4. Viruses must infect living cells in order to reproduce.
What is 2 and 4.
Change over time.
What is evolve?
What field of biology is based on our ability to "edit" and rewrite genetic code?
What is biotechnology?
The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.
What is observation?
To submit a paper that is reviewed by an anonymous person who is in the same field before sending it to be published.
What is peer review?
Which statement best compares the methods of science and engineering?
1. The methods are completely different and unrelated.
2. The methods are similar, but are not identical with one another.
3. The methods are identical, but have different names.
4. The methods are identical and have the same name.
What is 2. The methods are similar, but are not identical with one another.
The combination of chemical reactions as it carries out its life processes is called what?
What is metabolism?
What field of biology tries to understand the organisms that cause human disease and have their own ecology?
What is ecology and evolution of infectious diseases?
The relatively constant set of conditions.
Example: You are running and become thirsty.
What is homeostasis?
A group exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for changes in the independent variable.
What is the control group?
Which pair of crosscutting concepts are best exemplified when birds fly south for the winter?
1. stability and change
2. systems and system models
3. patterns
4. energy and matter
What is patterns?
Cause and effect
A signal to which an organism responds.
What is stimulus?
What field of biology focuses on studies of DNA and other molecules inside cells?
What is genomics and molecular biology?
A well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations and hypothesis.
**THEY DO NOT BECOME LAWS
What is scientific theory?
True or False:
Theories are broad and useful explanations for how the world works. They may be complex.
What is true?
In the metric system, what do the kilogram, kilometer, and kilocalorie have in common?
They are units 1000 times larger than a base unit.
A tentative scientific explanation that can be tested by further observation or by experimentation.
What is hypothesis?
What is the science that employs scientific methodology to study living things?
What is biology?