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Binomial nomenclature

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It is the system used by modern scientist to name organisms

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Biogenesis

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Biogenesis is the theory that living things come only from other living things

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Cell

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A cell is the smallest unit of an organism that carries on the function of life

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Control

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A control is the standard to which the outcome of a test compared.cat/experimental

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Genus

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A genus is a group of similar species.

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homeostrasis

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Homeostasis is a trait of all living things

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hypothesis

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Hypothesis is an explanation that can be tested.

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Kingdom

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A kingdom is the first and largest category of organisms

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Law

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A scientific law is a statement about how things work in nature that seems to be true all the time

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organism

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Organims vary in size from the microscopic bacteria in mud puddles to gigantic oak trees and are found just about everywhere

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Phylogeny

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it is the evolutionary history of an organism or how it has changed over time.

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scientific methods

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Scientific methods show one way that scientific might be used to solve a problem

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spontaneous generation

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the idea that living things come from nonliving things is known as a spontaneous generation

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theory

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A scientific theory is an explanation of things or events based on scientific knowledge that is the result of may observations and experiments

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variable

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A variable is something that in a experimental that can change

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