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Can you measure that?
It's alive
Life from what?
Expert Experimenter
Diversity of life
100
Scientists universal system of measurement
What is the metric system?
100
All life is made from these building blocks
What are cells?
100
To attempt to prove that life must come from life, Redi used these
What is meat in jars?
100
The general processes that scientists use to organize their experiments
What is the scientific method?
100
Where organisms interact with each other
What is an ecosystem?
200
Units for measuring distance or length
What is meter?
200
The process of an organism changing and getting more complex over its lifetime
What is development?
200
Ancient scientist who proposed that life could come from non-life
Who is Aristotle?
200
A theory about what will happen in an experiment
What is hypothesis?
200
The process through with early simple organisms have grown more complex over millennia
What is evolution?
300
Units for measuring weight
What is gram?
300
The process of an organism staying internally balanced
What is homeostasis?
300
The idea that life could come from non-living organisms
What is spontaneous generation?
300
In Redi's experiment with the meat, maggot and jars, this was represented by the number of maggots
What is the dependent variable?
300
Idea that favorable traits will be passed to future generations
What is natural selection?
400
Units for measuring volume
What is liter?
400
The three ways that organisms get energy (scientific terms)
What is producer, consumer, and decomposer?
400
The theory that the building blocks for early life may have come from the chemistry of the earth's early atmosphere
What is Oparin's Hypothesis?
400
The things that stay the same throughout an experiment
What is a control?
400
Traits that allow an organism to better survive
What is an adaptation?
500
Reason that it is so easy to convert within the metric system
What is base 10?
500
One of the main chemicals of life found in all organisms in addition to water
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acid?
500
The theory that replaced spontaneous generation once it was officially disproved by Louis Pasteur
What is biogenesis?
500
In Louis Pasteur's experiment with the boiling broth and S-tubes, this is represented by exposing some tubes to the air
What is the independent variable?
500
The number of kingdoms of living organism
What is six?