Introductory terms to generally used in biology
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| Biology | The study of life and living systems
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| Geology | The study of earth, particularly the solid earth and the rocks that compose it
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| Entomology | Branch of zoology that deals with the study of insects
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| Botany | The scientific study and categorization of plants
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| Ecology | The study of the relationship between living things and their environment
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| Genetics | The study of heredity, or how the characteristics of living things are passed from one generation to the next
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| Pathology | The study of the nature and cause of diseases
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| Taxonomy | The classification of living things
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| meteorology | The study of weather and climate
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| science | organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world
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| observation | use of one or more of the senses to gather information
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| data | evidence or information gathered from observation
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| inference | logical interpretation bases on prior knowledge and experiences
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| hypothesis | possible explanation for a set of observations or possible answer to a scientific question
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| controlled experiment | a test of the effect of ONE variable by changing it while keeping all other variables the same
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| metric system | universal decimal system of measurement based on certain physical standards and scaled on multiples of 10
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| microscope | device that produces magnified images of structures that are too small to see with the unaided eye
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| compound light microscope | microscope that allows light to pass through a specimen and uses two lenses to form an image
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| zoology | the scientific study and characterization of animals
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