Vocab
The combination of chemical reactions as it carries out its life processes
What is metabolism?
The first step of the scientific method.
What is observation?
is mostly a simple increase in size.
What is growth?
Scientist should be willing to accept different ideas that may not agree with their hypotheses.
What is open-mindedness?
Two terms used to reference living and nonliving organisms.
What are abiotic and biotic?
To change over time
What is to evolve?
Changeable factors that are measured in an experiment.
What are Variables ?
Living organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment a process known
What is homeostasis?
Ideas for scientific investigations often arise from
What are practical problems?
Are the smallest units of life can grow, respond to their surroundings, and reproduce.
What are cells ?
A signal to which an organism responds.
What is a stimulus?
Descriptive and involve characteristic that cannot usually be measured.
What is Qualitative Data?
The tendency for organ systems to become more complex as you move through vertebrates
What is a linear Pattern?
Opens new ways of asking questions for both scientists and engineers.
Genetic material organisms inherit from their parents.
What is DNA?
A personal, rather than scientific, point of view for or against certain kinds of people or activities.
What is Bias?
The variable that is deliberately changed
What is the independent Variable?
The need for matter and energy link all living things on Earth in a web of
What are interdependent relationships?
It also allows other scientists to evaluate and test the data and analysis.
What is Peer Review?
DNA or RNA genome particles made up of proteins, nucleic acids, and sometimes lipids.
What are virus?
Questioning existing ideas and hypotheses without evidence
What is a skeptic?
A tested highly reliable scientific explanation of events in the natural world that unifies, many repeated observations and incorporates durable, well supported hypotheses that enable scientists to make accurate predictions.
What is a Theory?
The scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment.
What is Global Ecology?
Essential for asking questions, defining problems, proposing hypotheses and designing experiments that yield accurate data.
What is creativity?
This process forms cells that look different from one another and perform different functions.
What is differentiation?