Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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scientific methods | procedures used to solve problems and answer questios that include stating the problem, gathering information, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis with an experiment, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions
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hypothesis | prediction that can be tested
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control | standard to which the outcome of a test is compared
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variable | something in an experiment that can change
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theory | explanation of things or events based on scientific knowledge resulting from many observations and experiments
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law | statement about how things work in nature that seems to be true consistently
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organism | any living thing
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cell | smallest unit of an organism that can carry on life functions
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homeostasis | regulation of an organism's internal, life-maintaining conditions
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spontaneous generation | idea that living things come from nonliving things
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biogenesis | theory that living things come only from other living things
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phylogeny | evolutionary history of an organism; used today to group organisms into six kindgoms
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kingdom | first and largest category used to classify organisms
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binomial nomenclature | two-word naming system that gives all organisms their scientific name
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genus | first word of the two-word scientific name used to identify a group of similar species
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