Vocabulary
Conducting experiments
Characteristics of living things
Spontaneous generation experiments
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100
Using the five senses to obtain information.
What is observing
100
The name for a hypothesis that has been tested over and over again that unifies a broad range of observations.
What is a theory?
100
All living things are made up of these.
What are cells?
100
Back in the day, people observed that these would appear if meat was left out for a few days.
What are maggots?
100
The sum of all chemical reactions in the body.
What is metabolism?
200
Possible explanation for a set of observations (educated guess)
What is a hypothesis?
200
The name of the variable that changes in an experiment.
What is the Independent variable?
200
These are the two types of reproduction.
What is sexual and asexual reproduction?
200
This man did not believe in spontaneous generation because of his experiments with meat in covered and uncovered jars.
Who was Francesco Redi?
200
A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
300
Collection of living matter enclosed by a barrier.
What is a cell?
300
The name of the variable that is measured/observed in an experiment.
What is the Dependent variable?
300
These are two different ways living things obtain energy.
What are eating, sunlight
300
Spallanzani boiled his "gravy" in order to get rid of these.
What are microorganisms/bacteria?
300
Information gathered from observations.
What is data?
400
A change in a kind of organism over time.
What is evolution?
400
This is the number of variables that can be tested in one experiment.
What is one?
400
All living things grow and develop. This animal never stops growing.
What is an elephant?
400
This is the definition of Spontaneous generation.
What is the belief that life can come from nonlife?
400
A signal to which an organism responds.
What is stimuli?
500
The process by which organisms maintain a stable internal environment (happy body).
What is homeostasis?
500
These are the six parts to writing a lab report.
What is title, purpose, materials, procedure, results, and conclusion?
500
All living things have a genetic code. This is the FULL NAME of the molecule that stores this code.
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
500
This man was the only scientist (talked about in class) that believed in spontaneous generation.
Who was John Needham?
500
These are two ways the body maintains homeostasis.
What is shivering, sweating, sleeping, eating right,...
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