Characteristics of Life
The development of an adult frog from a tadpole is an example of this characteristic of life
What is growth and development?
The smallest level of organization that still has all the characteristics of life
What is the cell?
This is measured to determine the results
What is the dependent variable?
This describes a relationship between two quantities without explaining why
What is a scientific law?
Astrology and flat-earth theory are examples of this
What is pseudoscience?
A bird flying away after hearing a loud sound is an example of this characteristic of life
What is response to the environment?
This level of organization includes all the members of the same species living in an ecosystem
What is a population?
A prediction or explanation that can be rejected based on an experiment
What is a hypothesis?
In this type of study, the subjects do not know whether they are in the experimental or control group, but the people conducting the experiment do
What is a blind study?
This term refers to things that are kept the same in every trial of an experiment
What is a constant?
Sweating to cool the body on a hot day is an example of this characteristic of life
What is regulation?
Using characteristics of organisms to group and classify them is an example of this field of biology
What is taxonomy?
This group is not exposed to the independent variable
What is the control group?
The name given to the phenomenon in which people may begin to feel better just because they expect to
What is the placebo effect?
This group is exposed to the change in the independent variable
What is the experimental group?
The long beak on a hummingbird is an example of this characteristic of life
What is evolutionary adaptation?
Inherited disorders are studied in this field of biology
What is genetics?
Measurements are this type of data
What is quantitative data?
The margin of error can be decreased by increasing this
What is the sample size?
The name for the process in which results of an experiment are reported and evaluated by others
What is peer review?
A platypus laying eggs is an example of this characteristic of life
What is reproduction?
All the parts of the earth where life can be found
What is the biosphere?
This variable is directly changed by the scientist
What is the independent variable?
In this type of experiment neither the subjects nor the people conducting the experiment know which is the control group and which the experimental group
What is a double-blind experiment?
This can cause people to influence the result of an experiment
What is bias?