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1
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What does biology study?

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Organs and history of life, where things come from. Structures of living things. How things function. How they interact with each other. Diversity of life. Preserving the environment. Research diseases. Develop technologies. Improve agriculture.

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What are the 8 characteristics of life?

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  1. Made of one or more cells
  2. Displays growth
  3. Development
  4. Reproduces
  5. Responds to stimuli
  6. Requires energy
  7. Maintains homeostasis
  8. Adaptations evolve over time
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Unicellular organisms

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Bacteria, protist

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Multicellular organisms

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Fungus, plants, animals

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Asexual

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Clone, double, one organism

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Sexual

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Takes 2, new product

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Species

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Different species have different chromosomes, genes

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Respiration

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Consumers (animals, fungus, protist, bacteria)

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9
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Photosynthesis

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Producers (plants, protist, bacteria)

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Maintains homeostasis

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Maintains internal conditions, metabolism controls it

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What are the organization levels? (6)

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  1. Chemical Level
  2. Cells
  3. Tissues
  4. Organs
  5. Organ system
  6. Organism
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Science

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Answering questions, research, learning information about the natural world

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What is science driven by?

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Curiosity

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Scientific inquiry

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Asking questions to satisfy our curiosity, unbiased

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What expands scientific knowledge?

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Reevaluation, checks and rechecks

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Scientific theory

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Explanation of something of large scale, based on facts

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Peer review

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When an experiment is evaluated by other scientists who are in the same field

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What does it mean to be scientifically literate?

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To be able to ask, find, or determine answers to a question

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Scientific method

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  1. Ask a question
  2. Make a hypothesis
  3. Test hypothesis
  4. Analysis
  5. Conclusion
  6. Retest
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hypothesis

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Educated guess

21
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Experimental group

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Testing the hypothesis, the one being tested

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Control group

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Comparison to the experimental group

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Independent variable

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The one thing that is different between the control and experimental procedure

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Dependent variable

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Depends on the independent, the data

25
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What needs to be in the conclusion?

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  • is your hypothesis correct

- data to support your answer

26
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Metric system

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Nano—-micro—-milli-centi-deci-UNIT-deka-hecto-kilo-mega

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Mass

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(g) how much matter, measured with a triple beam balance

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Volume

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How much space an object takes up (lwh, cm^3=ml)

29
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Density

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Amount of stuff in a certain amount of space

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