Biology Terms
Study of Life
What is Biology
Working out, building muscle
What is Growth
data collected that consist of numbers, time, weight and distance.
What is Quantitative
Procedure that test a hypothesis by collecting information under controlled conditions.
What is Experiment
Does not receive the treatment or change in the independent
What is Control Group
A person that researches methods to study living organisms and their interactions with the environment
What is a Biologist
Overall changes in the whole organisms.
What is Development
Explanation for a question or a problem that can be formally tested
What is Hypothesis
Receives the treatment or change in the independent variable. Used to assess the effect of the treatment.
What is Experimental Group
a natural environment where a particular organism lives and utilizes the resources of that place for its survival, food, shelter, protection, and mating.
What is Habitat
They can grow and develop, reproduce,
make up one or more cells.
What is Characteristics of living things
data that consist of desriptions , color, shapes and emotions.
What is Qualitative
Independent, in an experiment, the condition that is tested because it affects the outcome of experiment.
What is Experimental Variables
the condition that results from changes in the independent variable.
Constant, variable that does not change.
What is Dependent
functional role and position of a species in its environment that describes how the species responds to the distribution of resources and competitors or predators.
What is Niche
when a hypothesis has been confirmed by many experiments, it may become a theory. Theories explain natural phenomena.
What is Theory
Describes an observed phenomenon without explaining why it occurs.
What is Law
a relationship between individuals of two species in which one species obtains food or other benefits from the other without either harming or benefiting the latter.
What is Commensalism
association between organisms of two different species in which each benefits.
What is Mutualism
relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other, sometimes without killing the host organism.
What is Parasitism
a scientist writes an article on stem cells, other experts on stem cells will review the art. You are reviewing what your peers scientific findings are.
What is Peer review
organisms that use energy from the sun or energy stored in chemical compounds to manufacture their own nutrients.
What is Autotrophs
organisms that can not make their own food and must feed on other organisms for energy and nutrients.
What is Heterotroph
an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms
What is Predator
an animal that is caught and killed by another for food
What is Prey