Scientific Process
What one makes using their senses.
What is an observation?
The scientific study of life.
Biology.
Relatively constant internal, physical and chemical conditions that the organisms maintain.
Homeostasis
what does a single strand have in a virus?
RNA/ssRNA
The variable that changes is called?
independent variable.
Evidence; information gathered from observations.
Data
Process of reproduction involving a single parent that results in offspring that is genetically identical to the parent.
Asexual reproduction
Change over time.
RNA/dsRNA
The variable that changes in response?
dependent variable
Well tested explanation based from observations and hypotheses.
Theory
Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic material that organisms inherit from their parents.
DNA
Type of reproduction in which cells from two parents unite to form the first cell of a new organism.
Sexual reproduction
Are viruses living?
No, because they can only survive with a host.
what is the best constant in a controlled experiment?
The variables
Factor in a controlled experiment that is deliberately changed; also called manipulated variable.
Independent variable.
The combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down material.
Metabolism
Atom
Do viruses change?
Yes
Science deals with only _____ world?
Scientific
Variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable; also called the responding variable.
Dependent variable
Signal to which an organism responds.
Stimulus
The center of an atom, which contains the protons and neutrons.
Nucleus
why are flu shots and medicine different every year?
The viruses change shape and barriers to collect them from the medicine.
Why are ideas in science changing?
Scientists are constantly studying.