The Science
The first forms of life on Earth.
What are micoorganisms?
Highest biological level of organization.
What is a biosphere?
A heritable trait that helps an organism's survival and reproduction in it's present environment.
What is an adaptation?
Part of the experiment that does not change during the experiment.
What is the control?
A form of logical thinking that uses a general inclusive state to forecast specific results.
What is deductive reasoning?
Science which seeks to expand knowledge regardless of the short term application
What is Basic Science?
Process of gradual change over time.
What is evolution?
Similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor, but the features serve completely different functions.
What are homologous structures
The number of variables you should test at a time.
What is one?
Large molecule, typically formed by the joining of smaller molecules.
What is a macromolecule?
Form of science that aims to solve real world problems.
What is applied science?
Smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
A change in DNA and is the ultimate source of new versions of genes
What is a mutation?
The specific results that you expect see in you experiment if the hypothesis is true
What is a prediction?
A form of logical thinking that uses related observations to arrive at a general conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
Two types of reasoning.
What are deductive and inductive reasoing?
The smallest fundamental unit of structure and function in living things.
What is a cell?
The scientific concept that Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace independently discovered.
What is natural selection?
The process that helps ensure that a scientist's research is original, significant, logical, and thorough.
What is peer review?
Similar phenotypes that evolve independently.
What is convergent evolution?
Inductive vs Deductive
2 and 2
Properties of Life Activity
What are:
Organization, Response to stimuli, Reproduction, Growth and development, Homeostasis, Energy processing, Adaptation
Convergent vs Divergent Activity
Common traits vs common ancestor
Scientific Method Activity
What is:
Observation, Question, Hypothesis, Prediction, Experiment, Analyze, Report
Name that science.
Mycology: Study of fungi
Zoology: Study of animals
Biology: Study of life
Biochemistry: Study of chemistry of biological organisms
Botany: Study of plants
Microbiology: Study of the structure and function of microorganisms
Molecular Biology: Study of the biological processes and their regulation at the molecular level
Neurobiology: Study of the biology of the nervous system
Paleontology: Study of life's history be means of fossils