Intro To Biology

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Biology

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The study of life

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What defines life?

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Order, evolutionary adaptations, responses to the environment, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, reproduction

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Order

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Highly-organized structures in their cells, tissues, organs, or organ systems

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Adaptations

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Individuals with favorable traits will survive and reproduce at higher rates

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Stimuli

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Living organisms have the ability to respond to these changes in their environment

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Homeostasis

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Maintaining a specific range of internal conditions inspite of outside changes

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Reproduction

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Process that living creatures use to pass their genes along to the next generation

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Biosphere

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Part of Earth that supports life

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Ecosystem

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Specific area within the biosphere with a common set of physical characteristics

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Biological community

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Made of all populations living and interacting in one ecosystem

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Organism

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An individual living thing

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Organs/Organ Systems

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Structures with a specific vital function

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Tissues

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Make up organs and are group of cells with similar structure and functions

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Cell

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The smallest unit of an organisms that still demonstrates all the basic characteristics of life

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Aristotle’s belief

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Life could arise from non-living matter

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Scientific method

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1. Make an observation
2. Ask a question or identify a problem
3. Search for existing answers of solutions
4. Formulate a hypothesis
5. Design and perform an experiment
6. Accept or reject hypothesis
7. Draw conclusions
8. Report and share results (preferably with like minded people)

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Observation

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The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way

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Hypothesis

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An explanation for an observation based on prior knowledge

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Experiment

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Test a hypothesis under controlled conditions

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Quantitative data

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Data with numerical measurements

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Qualitative data

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Non-numerical descriptive data

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Control group

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Sample with no new variable being introduced

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Probability

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Helps predict the likeliness of an experimental result occurring simply due to a random chance

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Bias

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Scientists or patients influence the dater to produce a specific result

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Blind experiment

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Prevents the experimental subjects from knowing whether they are in the control or experimental group

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Double-blind experiment

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Prevents both the scientists and subjects from knowing which is the control and experimental group

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Peer review

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Other scientists to review and critique the experimental design, data collection, and analysis

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Theories

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Large, broad explanations composed of many hypotheses and experimental results

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Scientific law

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Description of an observed phenomenon

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Cell biology

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Studies cells; the smallest and simplest units of life

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Genetics

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The study of the inheritance of characteristics through DNA in chromosomes

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Taxonomy

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Names and classifies different specks to indicate now closely related they are

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Evolution

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Study of how the organisms on present dan came earth to be; that ancestors and now they are adapted to their environment