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scintific method and characteristics of living things
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| biology | Biology is the science seeking to understand living things. |
| organism | individual living thing |
| characteristic | something that describes an object |
| sexual reproduction | cells from 2 rents unite to to produce new organism |
| asexual reproduction | single parent |
| genteic code | determines the inherted traitsfor every organism on earth |
| DNA | directions for inheritance |
| development | (multi cell) rapid and dramtic change, cells dividing to produce more cells |
| differation | proccess of cells dividing and multipling |
| energy | needed to grow and develop and produce |
| material | what and organism takes in or breaks down to survive |
| photosynthesis | is reciving energy through light |
| chem reaction | changing one set of chem to another set of chem |
| molecules | groups of atoms smallest unit of most chem compounts |
| enviorment | factors outside of orgaism Ex. light temp |
| Stimulus | is a signal wich an organism responds |
| Homeostasis | keeping internal condition fairly constant |
| cell | collection of matter |
| characteristics of living things | 1. made up of cells 2. reproduction 3. based on a genetic code 4. growth and development 5. needs materials and energy 6. response to the enviorment 7. maintaining internal balance 8. evolution |
| levels of organization | - molecules -cells -groups of cells -organism -population -community -ecosystem -biosphere |
| Kingdom hiearchey | Kingdom : biggest cat ex Animalia Phylum :many organisms that share important char Ex. chordata Class : mammalia Order : Carnivora Family : Ex. urisdae Genus :Closley related species Ex. Urisdae Species : group of similiar organisms that breed. Ex. |
| Independent variable | experamenter choses to change (x axis) |
| Dependent | the variable that responds to change (y axis) |
| treatments | test group |