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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How does sharing ideas through per review articles help advance science | Scientist reading the articles may come up with new questions to study |
| Who reviews articles or per reviewed journals | anonymous and independent experts |
| Why is creativity considered a scientific attitude | Creativity helps scientist come up with different experiments |
| Suppose that a scientist proposes a hypothesis about how a newly discover virus affects humans. Other virus researchers would likely ____ | Design new experiments to test the proposed hypothesis |
| Based on your observations ,you suggest that the presents of water could accelerate the growth of bread mold. This is ____ | A hypothesis |
| Measurements made while observing a plant grow three cm over a 2 week period are called ____ | data |
| Science differs from other disciplines such as history and the arts because science relies on _____ | testing explanations |
| How many meters are in 2 km | 2,000 |
| The basic unit of length in the metric system is the ____ | meter |
| What are the smallest objects that biologists study | molecules |
| Which big idea in biology is most concerned with dna | information and heredity |
| Cells in multicellular organisms have many different sizes and shapes. These differences in cells are part of cell specialization. Cells specialization allows cells to ___ | preform different functions |
| Which of the following is not a way that science influences society | science gives society answers to difficult ethical issues |
| How do scientific theories compare to hypotheses unify a broad range of observations and hypotheses | theories |
| Suppose that a scientific idea is well tested and can be used to make predictions in numerous new situations, but cannot explain one particular event .this idea is a ____ | theory that may need revision |
| Which of the following is not a characteristic of all living things | ability to move |
| how does studying science help you be a better member of society | understanding how science works will help you make better decisions |
| A personal preference or pit of view | a bias |
| A well tested explanation that explains a lot of observations is ____ | a theory |
| What does a reviewer do during per review | check for mistakes and bias |
| After a scientist publishes a paper ,someone else finds evidence that the papers hypothesis may not be correct. The scientist is unhappy but studies the new evidence anyway. The scientist is showing which scientific attitude | open mindless |
| A student sees a bee on a flower. The student wonders how the bee finds flowers. The student is displaying the scientific attitude of ____ | curiosity |
| During a controls experiment ,a scientist isolate and tests____ | a single variable |
| Science is best described as a ___ | way of knowing |
| The proses by which organisms keep everything inside there bodies within certain limits is called____ | homeostasis |
| Figure 1-1 shows that tree finch and ground finch distended from a common ancestor. this example represents which big idea in biology | evolution |
| Biologist who work in the field genomics and molecular biology study ____ | dna |
| Would a scientist who study's evolution also have to learn about other branches of biology | yes the different branches of biology are interrelated |
| Scientist often try to repeat each others results. Which of the following should a scientist do to make it easier for others to replicate his or her experiment | use the metric system when communicating procedure and results |
| Scientist try to use explanations of the natural world to understand patterns and make ______ about natural events | predictions |
| Inside all living things, chemical reactions happen that allow the organisms to grow and develop. Organisms need to take in _____to fuel these reactions | energy |
| Charles Darwen idea about change over time have been well tested by other scientist and are now considered to be a ____ | theory |
| The combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials as it carries out its life processes is called ______ | metabolism |
| Why is it not useful to view science as a set of facts | science is always changing |
| Why is it necessary to put a paper through per review before it is published | the paper may contain mistakes bias or fraud |