Domains and Kingdoms
Levels of Organization
Experiments
Scientific Method
Miscellaneous
100
Have chloroplasts and are multicellular with eukaryotic cells; kingdom
What is the Kingdom Plantae?
100
Basic unit of structure and function in all living things
What is a cell?
100
The part of an experiment in which the variable is left alone or unaltered
What is the control?
100
Is used to provide further data for supporting the conclusion and is done over and over
What are repeated trials?
100
Natural selection leads to this
What is evolutionary adaptation?
200
Have eukaryotic cells but are not photosynthetic; often mistaken for plants; kingdom
What is the Kingdom Fungi?
200
A group of organisms of the same species living in the same place together
What is a population?
200
The variable that an experimenter changes on purpose
What is the independent variable?
200
Discovery science uses this type of reasoning
What is inductive reasoning?
200
Charles Darwin's book
What is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection?
300
Actinosphenia elegans is a unicellular, photosynthetic, eukaryotic organism that belongs in this domain.
What is the Domain Eukarya?
300
A group of tissues working together
What is an organ?
300
The variable that typically goes on the Y axis of a graph
What is the dependent variable?
300
A hypothesis that has gained the support of a great deal of evidence but is not yet a law
What is a theory?
300
Molecule that is common to all life but that is also the basis for the diversity of life
What is DNA?
400
These domains have prokaryotic cells.
What are Archaea and Bacteria?
400
A biologist studying interactions among the plants, animals, and bacteria in an ecosystem is working at this level.
What is a community?
400
The estimate of what the data might be beyond the line on a graph of collected data
What is extrapolation?
400
An educated prediction of the outcome of an experiment
What is a hypothesis?
400
The study of life
What is biology?
500
Unicellular, eukaryotic organisms; kingdom
What is the Kingdom Protista?
500
The various parts of a cell
What are organelles?
500
The purpose of a control
What is a means of comparison?
500
An approach used by scientists that involves deductive reasoning
What is hypothesis-based science?
500
Energy utilization, organization, growth, development, reproduction, evolution, regulation, DNA, irritability
What are characteristics of life?
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