Vocabulary Words
The fundamental understanding of the nature of reality that serves as a system for understanding and filtering our experiences.
What is worldview.
The most basic unit of life.
What is cells?
Common descent, natural selection, mutation
What is 3 Pillars of Darwin's Theory?
The materialistic belief system that claims life originated without the divine intervention, started form a single common ancestor, and diversified over an immense time span.
What is darwinism?
The study of the physical environment.
What is physical ecology?
Adhering to or consistent with the philosophy that the natural world is all that exists.
What is materialistic?
Chemical processes inside cells.
What is metabolism?
Ask ?'s, form a hypothesis, analyze and interpret data, engage in arguments from evidence, construct explanations (theories), obtain, evaluate, and communicate information
What is the Process of Science?
The belief that everything is a product of natural rather than supernatural cause.
Focuses on minimizing damage to environment.
What is conservation of ecology?
The materialistic belief system that claims life originated without the divine intervention, started from a single common ancestor, and diversified over an immense time span.
What is darwinism?
Need to make new copies of itself.
What is reproduction?
Conducted a famous experiment, carried out 4 tests to disprove spontaneous generation.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Information or facts that are verifiable through observation or experience.
What is empirical data?
The study of single-celled organisms that are too small to see without magnification.
What is microbiology?
Not open to more than one interpretation.
What is unambiguous?
Changes over lifetime.
What is development and growth.
Control group, variables, materials needed, type of data to collect, type of observations, overall procedure.
What is a Hypothesis Plan?
Principles relating to knowledge beyond physics and thus impossible to acquire through the senses.
What is empirical data?
A characteristic of life and genetics, studies the way in which information is passed from one generation to the next.
What is reproduction?
A written account of research that conveys information concisely and precisely.
What is scientific paper?
Maintain a constant internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
Is a principle used by scientists to differentiate likely explanations from equally logical, but less probable explanations. The simplest explanation is most likely the truth.
What is Occam's razor?
The study of the chemical processes that occur within living organisms.
The classification of organisms, helps to save endangered species so we can identify them, it also helps to conserve ecology as well as find medicines.
What is taxonomy?