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Biology 1 vocab
Mr beivers class
| Answers | Questions |
|---|---|
| Science | Organized way to use evidence to learn about the natural world |
| Observations | an act of gathering information by the senses sight smell touch and taste |
| Data | Evidence gathered by observations |
| Inference | Logical interputation based on prior knowledge or experience |
| Hypothesis | Possible explanation for a set of observations or possible answer to scientific question |
| Spontaneous generation | Hypothesis stating that life could arise from nonliving matter(disproved) |
| Controlled experiment | A test of the effect of a single variable by changing it while keeping all other variables the same |
| Manipulated variable | Factor in an experiment that a scientist purposely changes also known as independent variable |
| Responding variable | Factor in an experiment that a scientist wants to observe which may change in response to the manipulated variable also known as a dependent variable |
| Theory | Well tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observation |
| Biology | Science that seeks to understand the living world |
| Cell | Collection of living matter enclosed by a manner that separates the cell from its surroundings, basic unit of all forms of life |
| Sexual reproduction | Process by which cells from two different parents unite to produce the first Cell of the new organisms |
| Asexual reproduction | Process by which a single parent reproduces by itself |
| Metabolism | Set of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials as it carries out it's life process |
| Metric system | Decimal system of measurement based on certain physical standard and scale multiples of 10 |
| Compound light microscope | Microscope that allows like to pass through a specimen and used two lenses to form an image |
| Electron microscope | Microscope tha forms an image by focusing beams of electrons on to a specimen |
| Cell fractionation | Technique in which cells are broken into pieces in the different cell parts are separated |
| Homeostasis | Process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment |
| Stimulus | A signal to which an organism respond |
| Microscope | Device that produces magnify images of structures that are too small to see with an unaided eye |
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