Scientific Method
a plan for asking questions and testing possible answers
What is scientific investigation?
Explanation of an aspect of the natural world based on repeated observations
What is Scientific Theory?
What is the characteristics all organisms share?
All living things depend on their environment to supply them with what they need, including food, water, and shelter and also of other organisms.
What is Interdependence?
The diversity of living things
What is Biodiversity?
anything detected with the senses, which include sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
What is an Observation?
something that always applies under the same conditions.
What is a law?
process by which organisms give rise to offspring.
What is Reproduction?
is a close relationship between organisms of different species in which at least one of the organisms benefits.
What is Symbiotic Relationship?
cell-tissue-organ-organ system-organism are how many organisms can be organized
What is levels of organization of a multicellular organism?
possible answer to a scientific question,must be based on scientific knowledge, and it must be logical.
What is an Hypothesis?
Evolution occurs by a process where some living things produce more offspring than others, pass more genes to the next generation than others do.
What is Natural Selection?
is a type of asexual reproduction in bacteria
What is binary fission?
is a relationship between living things that depend on the same resources.
What is Competition?
consists of all the living things (biotic factors) in a given area, together with the nonliving environment (abiotic factors)
What is Ecosystem?
any type of data that may either agree or disagree with a prediction, so it may either support or disprove a hypothesis
What is Evidence?
the smallest unit of structure and function of all living organisms, all living organisms are made up of at least one cell, and living cells always come from other living cells
What is Cell Theory?
is the accumulated total of all the biochemical reactions occurring in a cell or organism.
What is Metabolism?
makes an organism more fit to live in its environment
What is adaptation?
is the part of Earth where all life exists, including all the land, water, and air where living things can be found
What is biosphere?
The last step in a scientific investigation
What is communicating results?
also called the pathogenic theory of medicine, is a scientific theory that proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases.
What is Germ Theory?
All living things are able to maintain a constant internal environment through
What is Homeostasis?
fertilization in plants in which pollen is transferred
What is Pollination?
all of the populations of different species that live in a given area.
What is Community?