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Tester
Tester Chapter One
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adaptation | Inherited characteristic of a different species that develops over time in response to an environmental factor, enabling the species to survive. |
| Biology | Science of life |
| Development | changes an organism undergoes in its lifetime before reaching its adult form |
| Growth | process that results in mass being added to an organism |
| Homeostasis | regulation of an organisms internal environment to maintain conditions under needed for life. |
| Organism | Anything that has or once had all characteristics of life |
| Reproduction | Production of offspring. |
| Response | organisms reaction to a stimuli |
| Species | largest group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. |
| Stimulus | evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue. |
| Theory | on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. |
| Metric system | the decimal measuring system based on the meter, liter, and gram as units of length, capacity, and weight or mass. |
| Peer Review | evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field. |
| Science | the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. |
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| control group | experiments, treatments are applied to experimental units in the treatment group. |
| constant | |
| data | |
| experiment | |
| hypothesis | |
| inference | |
| observation | |
| scientific method | |
| serendipity | the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. |