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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the scientific study of living things and their intercatoinswith the envirment | biology |
| in biology the smallest unit that can perform all life process | cell |
| the process of producing an offspring | reproduction |
| the sum if all chemical process that occur is an organism | metabolism |
| the maintenceof a con stant internal state in a changing envirment | homeostasis |
| is a small unit of heredity | gene |
| the passing of genes to offspring | heredity |
| a changing in the nucleotide base sequense of a gene or a dna moicule | mutation |
| a change in the charase es aids actoristics of a population from one generetics to another | evolvation |
| a group of orgasims that are closley related and naturally mate to produce fertile offsprings | species |
| the process by which indivduals that have favorite variation and are better adapted to thier envirorment survive and reproduce more sucessfully rhen less well adapted indiviedual | natural selection |
| is the complete genetic materal contained in an individual | genome |
| human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids | HIVS |
| a tumor in which the cells begin dividing at an uncontrolled rate and bvecome in vasive | cancer |
| cyis cuased by an inherited ddefect in a gene | cysic fibrosis |
| the replacement of a defective gene with a normal vesion | gene therapy |
| is the act of nothing or perceiving objects or events uign the senses | observation |
| is an explantion that might be true | hypothesis |
| is the expected outcome of a test asuming the hypothesis is correct | prediction |
| is how much acid is in the water | PH |
| a planned procedure to test a hypotheisis | experiment |
| is a group in an experiment that recieves no experametal treatment | control group |
| the factor that is changed in an experiment | independent v ariable |
| the variable that is measure in an experiment | dependent varaible |
| is a set of related hypothesis that havwe been tested and comfirmed many times by many scientest | theory |