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Bio Spring '14
Viruses
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biology | The science of life. |
| Organism | Anything that has or once had the characteristics of life. |
| Organization | Arranged in a orderly way. |
| Growth | The addition of mass in an organism |
| Development | The process of natural changes that take place during the life of an organism. |
| Reproduction | The production of offspring. |
| Species | A group of organisms that can breed with one another and produce fertile offspring. |
| Stimulus | Anything that is part of either environment and causes some sort of reaction by the organism. |
| Response | The reaction to a stimulus |
| Homeostasis | Regulation of an organism's internal conditions to maintain life. |
| Adaptation | An inherited characteristic that results from changes to a species over time. |
| Science | A body of knowledge based on the study of nature |
| Theory | An explanation of a natural phenomenon supported by many observations and experiments over time. |
| Peer Review | A process by which, in science, the procedures used during an experiment and the results are evaluated by other scientists. |
| Metric System | Uses units of divisions that are powers of ten. |
| SI | International Systems of Unitls |
| Forensics | The field of study that applies science to matters of legal interest. |
| Ethics | A set of moral principles or values. |