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Chapter 1 Amy Pritt
Chapter 1 Biology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| biosphere | everything that lives on earth and the places they live |
| biodiversity | variety of life on earth |
| species | particular thing that can breed and reprodeuce fertile offspring |
| biology | study of all forms of life |
| organism | any individual living thing |
| cell | basic unit of life |
| DNA | genetic information,instructions for growth and development |
| microscope | provides an enlarged image of an object |
| observation | collecting information about a topic using our senses |
| data | recorded observations, written down |
| hypothesis | possible answer to a scientific question, must be able to be tested |
| experiment | allows scientists to test a hypothesis |
| independent variable | variable that is changed in an experiment |
| dependent variable | variable that is measured in an experiment |
| constants | factors that do not change in an experiment |
| theory | propsed explanation for a wide range of observations and experimental results that is supported by a wide range of evidence, can change and never proven |