Need To Know Vocab
Keeping internal conditions to maintain relative stability.
What is homeostasis?
The factor deliberately changed by the investigator/scientist.
What is an independent variable?
The command God gave us to have dominion over the Earth and fill it.
What is the Creation Mandate?
A secular bioethics principle emphasizing respect for a person's decision-making or choice.
What is autonomy?
The preservation and wise use of natural resources.
What is conservation?
A simplified representation of an object, system, or process.
What is a model?
The responding factor measured or observed.
What is a dependent variable?
All living things must have at least one of these.
What is a cell?
A secular bioethics principle emphasizing treating people fairly.
What is justice?
The use of technology to enhance libing organisms.
What is biotechnology?
A proposed, testable explanation or prediction based on observations/knowledge.
What is a hypothesis?
A fair test in which conditions are controlled.
What is a controlled experiment?
Big questions about life addressed by the study of biology. (Multiple Answers; Nontraditional Answers)
Where did life come from?
How is life designed to function?
How does God provide energy for life?
What is the balance between preserving Earth's resources and using them to help people?
A secular bioethics principle emphasizing avoidance of harm.
What is Non-Maleficence?
The study of morality as it relates to the practice of biology and medicine.
What is bioethics?
A well-supported scientific explanation that organizes evidence and makes useful predictions. Explains why/how something happens.
What is a theory?
Conditions that are kept the same in an experiment.
What is a controlled variable?
A logical procedure for answering a scientific question.
What is scientific inquiry?
A secular bioethics principle emphasizing benefit/well-being.
What is beneficence?
Views and actions centered on environmental protection; compare its assumptions and goals with biblical stewardship/conservation.
What is environmentalizm?
A concise description, often mathematical, of a consistent pattern or relationship. Describes what happens.
What is a scientific law?
Describe the process of scientific inquiry.
Begins with making an observation, asking a question, followed by doing research that results in a hypothesis. The hypothesis is tested, often by means of an experiment. Data from the experiment is analyzed to assess whether the hypothesis is supported. Draw a conclusion. Results of the experiment are then published in a scientific journal, article, or book.
The perspective that shapes a person's understanding of reality
What is a presupposition?
Principles and reasoning used to judge right action.
What is ethics?
What is the Biblical Ethics Triad?