unit 1
A educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
The center of a cell.
What is the nucleus?
The study of heredity.
What is genetics?
The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
A state in which the organism adapts to survive its environment or conditions.
What is homeostasis
A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery.
What is a experiment?
The historic, scientific theory that living organisms are made up of cells.
An inherited characteristic.
What are traits?
Selective breeding by which humans use selective traits in breeding plants and animals.
What is artificial selection?
An individual animal, plant, or single celled life form.
What is an organism?
A method of procedure consisting in a systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and formulation, testing and modification of hypothesis
What is the scientific method?
The division of a cell into two daughter cells of the same material.
What is cell division?
A trait that is genetically determined and passed from parent to offspring.
The alteration of a gene in DNA.
What is a mutation?
A relationship in which two organisms work together, but one gains and the other is not effected.
What is a symbiotic relationship?