Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge, experience, or evidence
What is inference?
The collected body of data from experiments and observations
What is evidence?
Hey hypothesis, that has been tested with a significant amount of data
What is theory?
The group in an experiment that is manipulated
What is experimental group?
The group in an experiment that experiences no manipulation
What is control group?
A suggested, testable answer to a well defined scientific question or a possible explanation for observations
What is hypothesis?
Living creatures that are too small to see with naked eye
What are microorganisms?
A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data
What is scientific law?
Organism that eat only plants
What are herbivores?
Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food
What are heterotrophs?
The idea that long ago, very simple lifeforms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions
What is Abiogenesis?
The process, but which green plants and some other organisms, use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food
What is photosynthesis?
Organisms that are able to make their own food
What are autotroph’s?
Organisms that eat organisms, other than plants
What are carnivores?
Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms
What are omnivores?
Organism that is internally warmed by a heat- generating metabolic process
What is endotherm?
An abrupt and Mark change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of its parents
What is mutation?
Organisms that lacks an internal mechanism for regulating body heat
What is ectotherm?
Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment
What are receptors?
The process of which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent to the offspring
What is inheritance?
Process which is single organism produces genetically identical offspring
What is asexual reproduction?
The metric system (abbreviated SI )is the most widely used system of measurement in science
What is international system of units?
A microscope that shines light through a specimen, using two lenses to magnify an image
What is compound light microscope?
A microscope transmits a beam of electrons through a thinly sliced specimen
What is the transmission electron microscope?
A microscope that passes a meme of electrons over the surface of a specimen
What is a scanning electron microscope?