Scientific Method
What is observations?
Asking questions and developing one or more hypotheses to explain them.
What is Catabolism?
The sum total of all processes in an organism which break down chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks.
What is a herbivore?
Organisms that only eat plants.
What are Receptors?
Special structors that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal and external environment.
What is an Inference?
Logical interpretations based on prior knowledge, experience, or evidence.
What is photosynthesis?
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is a Carnivore?
Organisms that eat other organisms other than plants.
What is asexual reproduction?
The process by which a single organism produces genetically identical offspring.
What is an Hypothesis?
A suggested, testable answer to a well-defined scientific question or a possible explanation for observations.
What are autotrophs?
Organisms that are able to make their own food.
What is an Omnivore?
Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.
What is sexual reproduction?
The process by which two parents produce genetically different offspring.
What is evidence?
The collected body of data from experiments and observations.
What are heterotrophs?
organisms that depend on other organisms for their food.
What is an Endotherm?
organism that is internally warmed by a heat generating metabolic process.
What is inheritance?
The process by which both physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring.
What is a variable?
A variable is a factor that changes in an experiment.
What is Homeostasis?
The maintenance of stable internal conditions.
What is a Ectotherm?
Organisms that lack an internal mechanism for regulating body heat.
What is mutation?
An abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of its parents.