Scientific Process
Characteristics of Life
1
Characteristics of Life 2
Viruses
Defintions
100

Gathering information with the sences?

Observation 

100

What are living things made of?

One or more cells

100

What must multicellular organisms undergo to grow and develop?

Cell division and specialization 

100

Are viruses considered living?

No

100

The scientific study of life.

Biology

200

What you think about something you observe?

Inference


200

What are the 2 types of cells?

Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic

200

What molecule does genetic information come from? 

DNA

200

Do viruses have cells?

No they do not.

200

To change over time.

Evolve

300

The thing that the scientists changes in an experiment?

independent varible

300

The 2 main types of reproduction?

Sexual and asexual

300

What does DNA stand for?

Deoxyribonucleic acid

300

What genetic information does viruses contain?

DNA or RNA

300

Signal to which organisms respond.

Stimulus

400

An experiment where only 1 variable is changed?

Controlled Experiment

400

What organisms can not make their own glucose?

heterotrophs

400

What is the smallest part of an organism?

The cell

400

What does ss stand for in ssRNA?

Single stand

400

Body of knowledge that describes the natural world.

Science

500

What is scientific methodology?

"The way science works."

500

What 2 branches is metabolism broke into?

Anabolism and Catobolism

500

What organisms can make their own glucose?

Autotrophs

500

What does the ds stand for in dsDNA?

double strand.

500

A proposed explanation that can be tested.

Hypothesis

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