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Chapter 1
Mrs. Sylvia Ch1: The Science of Biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Characteristics of Living Things | Made of cells, grow and develop, obtain and use energy, respond to their environment, are able to reproduce |
| Organism | An individual living thing |
| Different levels of biology organization | cellular, molecular, chemical, organism, population, global |
| Biology | Science of life |
| Science | Process of thinking and learning about the world around us |
| Scientific method | system of asking questions, developing explanations, and testing those explanations |
| Steps of the Scientific Method | State a problem or question; propose a hypothesis; test with a controlled experiment; analyze the results |
| Hypothesis | Possible explanation |
| Experiment | Controlled test to determine if a hypothesis is valid |
| Control group | Test group of the experiment that doesn't change |
| Variable | Factor that changes in the experiment |