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Biology, Biologists & Biosciences Flashcards

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This philosophy on living things saw them as being made up of small machines

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Physicalists

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In this type of review other scientists working in the same field as you look over your manuscript and give recommendations on whether it should be published

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peer

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This age of science starts with the scientific revolution

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Modern

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The Kingdom of multicellular saphrophytic organisms that have a cell wall composed of chitin

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The Kingdom of multicellular organisms that have to feed by swallowing other organisms whole or in chunks

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Animalia

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In the classification scheme after Kingdom, Phylum, Class comes this taxon

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order

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Historical narratives ask this question

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Why ?

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The first part of the binomen, the species name

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genus

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Of hypothesis and theory this is the more general finding and has broader application

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theory

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Both a theory and hypothesis must be able to withstand this

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testing

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The newst taxon added to the top of the classification order

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Domain

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The kingdom of multicellular photosynthesizers

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Plantae

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Prokaryotes are before the kernel and eukaryotes have a true kernel. What is the kernel?

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a nucleus

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The name proposed by Artistotle for the Great Chain of Being

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Scala Naturae

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Your textbookis an example of this kind of litterature

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tertiary

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Type of cause a scientist is working with when caomparing the frequency of a DNA sequence of a gene causing disease in immigrants from an isolated south pacific island

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ultimate

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Organisms that lived in the past but are no longer living on earth and are said to be this

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extinct

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Both physical and natural sciences agree that the objects they are working with are subject to these laws as well as the laws of physics

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chemical

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Physical sciences deal with this type of material. Biologists do not and this is why they were not a part of the scientific revolution

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Inanimate

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This type of hypothesis explains what happends when the manipulated variable has no affect in an experiment

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null hypothesis

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