Vocabulary
What is a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
A chameleon's skin changing as a tactic to hide from predators is an example of what biological process.
What is adaptation.
What is non-living.
Define Independent Variable.
The "powerhouse" of the cell?
What is the mitochondria.
Define Adaptation.
What is a trait or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment
A person quickly removing their hand from a hot stove is an example of someone responding to what biologically.
Name the odd man out. Characteristics of life: growth/develpment, defication, response to stimulus, metabolism, homeostasis, reproduction.
What is defication.
Define Dependent Variable.
Variable you measure that is a direct result of the independent variable.
A group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell growth and the potential to invade and spread to other parts of the body.
What is cancer.
Define species.
WHat is a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
Name an example of how humans exhibit homeostasis in body temperature.
Characteristic of life that has to do with Autotrophs.
What is Metabolism.
A factor that is kept the same across all parts of the experiment to ensure that changes in the dependent variable are solely due to the manipulation of the independent variable
What is a constant variable.
What is a semipermeable membrane?
What is a membrane that is selective about what it lets through.
The difference between growth and development.
What is growth usually involved an increase in mass and development usually involved the acquisition of a trait or specialized function.
Name the characteristics of scientific inquiry.
asking scientifically oriented questions, prioritizing evidence to form explanations, connecting these explanations to existing scientific knowledge, designing and conducting investigations to gather new data, and communicating and justifying the explanations
Characterisic of life that has to do with keeping internal conditions stable.
What is homeostasis.
Having a control group ensures what?
That the response the independent variable it giving out is not due to random chance or an outside factor.
The movement of water across a semipermeable membrane from an area of high water concentration to an area of low water concentration.
What is osmosis.
The difference between adaptation and response.
What is adapation is over a whole population and response is in an individual.
Humans can not make their own food and consume other organisms to create energy. This is an example of what type of metabolism?
What is heterotroph?
Name all characteristics of life.
What is Cells, Reproduction, Genetic Code, Change Over Time, Growth & Development, Metabolism, Response to Stimuli, & Homeostasis.
Describe why it is important to only change one variable at a time when conducting an experiment.
What is so you know which variable illicits the response.
Define apoptosis.
What is programmed cell death