Greek/Latin Roots
The greek root, meaning “life”.
What is bios?
The study of life and living things.
What is Biology?
A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it
What is Hypothesis?
An increase in the number of cells.
What is Growth?
The study of plants.
What is Botany?
The greek term, meaning “the study of”
What is logia?
Biologists refer to living things as this.
What are organisms?
The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.
What is Observation?
The creation of a new organism with its own cells.
What is Reproduction?
The study of bodily structure of organisms.
What is Anatomy?
The latin root, meaning "not".
What is a?
The series of changes that an organism will undergo.
What is the Life Cycle?
An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.
What is Science?
Processes that an organism takes on to help it survive.
What is Life functions?
The study of animals.
What is Zoology?
The greek root, meaning "same".
What is homeo?
Biology is divided into many branches that called this.
What is disciplines?
The variable that is deliberately changed is called this.
What is independent variable?
Anything that causes a response.
What is Stimuli?
The study of the nature and effects of poisons.
What is Toxicology?
The greek term/suffix, meaning "state" or "standing".
What is stasis?
Most biologists, regardless of their branch, rely on this type of imaging tool.
What is a Microscope?
Logical interpretations based on what is already known.
What is inferences?
Any substance that promotes life and provides energy.
What is Nutrition?
The study of the causes and effects of diseases.
What is Pathology?