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Biology Flash Card
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why is an experiment called a controlled experiment? | Only one thing is varied at a time. |
| What is a variable? | Anything that might take on different values in an experiment. |
| What are the three classes variables are placed in? | Independent, dependent, and controlled. |
| What is an independent variable? | The variable the experimenter chooses to change. |
| What is dependent variable? | The variable that responds to changes the experimenter makes to the independent variable. |
| What is a controlled variable? | The things that are kept constant in an experiment. |
| What are the two types of cells that an organism can have? | Unicellular (single-celled) and multicellular (many-celled). |
| What's the difference between sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction? | Sexual reproduction is when cells from two different parents unite to create a new organism, and asexual reproduction is when the new organism has only one parent. |
| All living things need what to do work? | They need energy. |
| All living things need what for building blocks? | They need materials. |
| What is the first stsage of meiosis? | prophase |
| What is the 2nd stage of meiosis? | metaphase |
| What is the third stage of meiosis? | anaphase |
| what is the fourth stage of meiosis? | telophase |
| What atoms make up a molecule? | hydrogen and oxygen |
| Whats the smallest unit of matter? | atoms |
| What the smallest unit of life that can live as a seperate entity? | cells |
| whats the scale for bases? | 7-14 |
| whats the scale for acids? | 0-7 |
| whats is water? | 7 |