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Pre-Ap Biology Unit1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The study of all living things | 1. Biology |
| The structural, functional and biological unit of all organisms | 2. cell |
| Having or consisting of only one cell | 3. unicellular |
| Have or consisting or more than one cell | 4. multicellular |
| Any of a number of organized or specialized structures within a living cell | 5. organelle |
| The molecule that contains genetic material | 6. biological molecule |
| The tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements | 7. homeostasis |
| The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life. | 8. metabolism |
| A specified state of growth or advancement. | 9. development |
| The production of offspring by a sexual or asexual process. | 10. reproduction |
| A method of procedure that has characterized natural science | 11. scientific method |
| The action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information. | 12. observation |
| A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth. | 13. hypothesis |
| forecast | 14. prediction |
| A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact. | 15. experiment |
| When an experiment is conducted for the purpose of determining the effect of a single variable of interest on a particular system | 16. control group |
| Web definitions Experiments is the step in the scientific method that arbitrates between competing models or hypotheses. | 17. experimental group |
| A variable whose variation does not depend on that of another. | 18. independent variable |
| A variable whose value depends on that of another. | 19. dependent variable |
| A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something | 20. theory |
| The act of having someone other than yourself review your work. | 21. peer review |
| the quantity of three-dimensional space occupied by a liquid, solid, or gas. | 22. volume |
| A coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape. | 23. mass |
| A body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing. | 24. weight |
| How tightly packed together an object is. | 25. density |
| a grouping of tissues into a distinct structure, that performs a specialized task. | 26. organ |
| Any of the distinct types of material of which animals or plants are made, consisting of specialized cells and their products. | 27. tissue |
| a group of organs that work together to perform a certain task | 28. organ system |
| centimeter | 29. centi |
| decimeter | 30. deci |
| millimeter(liter) | 31. milli |
| kilometer(liter) | 32. kilo |
| dekameter | 33. deka |
| hectoliter | 34. hecto |
| megaliter | 35. mega |
| micrometer | 36. micro |
| nanoliter | 37. nano |