Hughes_elle Quiz Intro 1 Flashcards
The structures of animals
Anatomy - fields in life science
The phsical and chemical functions of tissues and organs
Physiology - fields in life science
The mechanisms inside organisms that protect them from disease and infection
Imunology - fields in life science
How disease arise and spread
Epidemiology - fields in life science
Factors or letters that can change in an experiment
Variables - designing an experiment
An experiment in which only one variable is maniplulated at a time
Controlled experiment - designing an experiment
The one variable that is purposly changed to test a hypothesis,also called the independent variable
Maniplulated variable - designing an experiment
The factor that may change in response to the manipulated variable
Responding variable - designing an experiment
A statement that describes how to measure a variable or define a term
Operational definition - designing an experiment
Having to do with numbers like its weight, the number of how many the object
Quantative - scientific investigation
Having to do with the color, shape, what its made out of, what you think of it
Qualitative - scientific investigation
An important attitude that drives scientists
Curiosity - scientific attitudes
Especially important when a scientist’s results go against previous ideas or predictions
Honesty - scientific attitudes
Should always be balanced by skeptism
Open-Mindedness - scientific attitudes
An attitude of doubt
Skeptism - scientific attitudes
