Unit 1
Something correct that you can identify using your five senses. An educated guess.
What is an observation and an inference?
The basic structural unit of all living organisms.
What is a cell?
A self-replicating material which is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes.
What is DNA?
In biology, organisms can produce more offspring than can survive.
What is Overproduction?
Behaviors or activities performed by organisms to increase fitness.
What are behavioral adaptations?
Describes the quantity of what what is being observed.
What is a Quantitative Observation?
He discovered the cell theory.
Who is Matthias Schleiden?
A structure found in cells that contain DNA.
What is a Chromosome?
The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
What is Heredity?
Genetically inherited traits, that do not have to be learned.
What are Innate behaviors?
Regularities or mathematical descriptions of natural phenomena.
What is the Scientific law?
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
What is photosynthesis?
They are parts that contain information and are passed down from the parent to the offspring.
What are Genes?
The variation of the genes.
What is an allele?
Behaviors that repeat at regular intervals.
What are Behavioral Cycles?