Intro to Biology Flashcards

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What are the properties of life?

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Order, sensitivity or response to stimuli, reproduction, adaptation, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, energy processing.

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Cells are classified as what?

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Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

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The highest and lowest levels of organization are?

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Biosphere and an Atom

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What is the taxonomy of living things?

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Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

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What is a hypothesis?

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A suggested explanation event that will be tested

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What is the scientific method?

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It defines steps that include experiments and observations

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What is the scientific theory?

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A thoroughly tested and continued explanation for an observation or phenomena

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What is inductive reasoning?

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A form of logical thinking that uses related observations to get a conclusion

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What is deductive reasoning?

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Form of logical thinking that uses a general principle or law to forecast specific results

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The attempt to disprove a hypothesis is accomplished by which of the following tasks?

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conducting experiments

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