What is Biology?
Made of one or more cells, responding to stimuli, and maintaining homeostasis are some examples.
What are characteristics that may be used to determine whether something is alive?
Adding mass but not necessarily maturing.
What is growth?
In an experiment, the results or data measured as a result of an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
One of the most important rules when working with glass, dangerous chemicals, and flame.
What is wearing goggles or eye protection?
They can reproduce only in a host cell and have a genetic code, but that's all they have that makes these things different from cells.
Why are viruses not considered living organisms?
Cells are considered the basic units of living things.
What is they exhibit all of the characteristics of life?
Maturing associated with growing older.
What is development?
The manipulation or change, such as a new fertilizer or new dog food, in a controlled experiment.
What is an independent or manipulated variable?
Keeping aisles clear, no horseplay, and following other safety instructions before starting a lab.
What are some safety considerations before starting a lab?
A flask with a narrow mouth, and a flat bottom designed for stability.
What is an Erlenmeyer flask?
The arts and philosophy of life.
What are things that biological sciences would NOT be involved in?
A reaction to a stimulus, not an inherited characteristic.
What is a response?
Factors in an experiment that must stay the same to validate the results.
What are constants?
Because one could suck up a toxic liquid.
Why you never pipette with one's mouth?
A safety violation when dealing with glass tubing and rubber stoppers.
Never push a glass tube into a stopper in the palm of your hand.
The science of life.
What is biology?
Maintaining an internal temperature and keeping a certain concentration of dissolved substances in the blood.
What is homeostasis?
A type of experiment that has only one variable,all other possible variables kept constant, and there's something the experimental results are compared to.
What is a controlled experiment?
The responsible thing to do with broken glass and other broken sharp objects like scalpels.
What is dispose of carefully in a designated location?
How nonpoisonous fumes are supposed to be smelled.
What is wafting?
Unlike biology, this is not based on standard scientific research, and it does not deal with testable questions.
What is pseudoscience?
A code that is the basis of all living things.
What is an information system such as DNA?
This step is a critical step in publishing the results of a scientist's experiment to one's contemporaries.
What is peer review?
The number one rule in a lab.
What is safety?
Pointing the tube towards ones face while doing this.
What do you never do while heating a test tube over a flame?