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An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world
What is science?
The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable
What is the Dependent variable?
The study of living things
What is biology?
Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic material that organisms inherit from their parents
What is DNA?
A signal to which an organism responds
What is a stimulus?
The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way
What is observation?
Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.
What is data?
A well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations
What is a theory?
Cells from two parents unite to form the first cell of a new organism
What is sexual reproduction?
A single organism produces offspring identical to itself
What is asexual reproduction?
A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
What is inference?
Information describing color, odor, shape, or some other physical characteristic
What is Qualitative data?
Process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment
What is homeostasis?
The combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials
What is metabolism?
A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific.
What is bias?
A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.
What is a hypothesis
Information that can be measured and written down with numbers
What is Quantitative data?
The variable that is deliberately changed (AKA the manipulated variable)
What is the Independent variable?
The group that does not receive the experimental treatment
What is the control group?
Part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
What is the biosphere?
A test of the effect of a single variable by changing it while keeping all other variables the same
What is a controlled experiment?
Living things grow and develop; respond to their environment, and are made up of cells.
What are characteristics of living things.
He was able to finally prove the fallacy of spontaneous generation to his biased fellow scientists.
Who was Louis Pasteur?
This symbol stands for potassium.
What is K?
This symbol stands for sodium.
What is Na?