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Chapter One
| Who is Dr. Redi and what did he do? | -Found the problem with spontaneous generation and flies -Did the first science experiment known - |
| What is a Hypothesis? | Statement that must be disproven |
| What is Uniformitarianism? | Hutton's theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes |
| What is the scientific approach? | -the universe is explainable through natural processes -Uniformitarianism -Hypothesis can be falsified -share the word with others: publish and peer review |
| What does all Life do? | A) Organismic integrity-skin B) Movement C) Responsiveness D) Growth E) Reproduction F) Respiration - Breath, Transport, cellular respir G) Digestion H) Absorption I) Circulation J) Assimilation K) Excretion L) Evolution |
| Requirements of Life? | 1. Water-dissolves and moves nutrients 2. Nutrients-building blocks of body 3. Heat-Speed up chemical reactions |
| What is a Human? | 1. Large Brained to remember the good places for food and to get along with 2.Special tooth formation 3.Large birth canal 4. Fully rotating forearm for catching the next branch 5. Binocular vision |
| What is Homeostasis? | The tendency of the body to maintain a constant state |
| Anabolism | Small molecules are joined to form larger ones |
| Catabolism | Large molecules are broken down to smaller ones |
| Atom | Smallest unit of matter |
| Molecule | two or more atoms put together neutral |
| Macromolecules | -complex molecules like DNA and some proteins -form organelles |
| Cells | smallest living structure and serve as the basic units of structure and function in organisms |
| Tissues | groups of similar cells which that preform common functions |
| Organs | contain 2 or more tissue types that work together |
| Organ system | related organs that work together |
| Organism | living being |
| Absorption | Uptake to organism |
| Assimilation | uptake to cell |
| Experiment | a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact |
| Hierarchy | an arrangement or classification of things according to relative importance or inclusiveness |
| Negative feedback | resulting action will be in the opposite direction of the stimuli |
| Virus | -an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat -requires other things to do its life things |
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