Intro to Biology Flashcards
What are the properties of life?
Order, sensitivity or response to stimuli, reproduction, adaptation, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, energy processing.
Cells are classified as what?
Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
The highest and lowest levels of organization are?
Biosphere and an Atom
What is the taxonomy of living things?
Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
What is a hypothesis?
A suggested explanation event that will be tested
What is the scientific method?
It defines steps that include experiments and observations
What is the scientific theory?
A thoroughly tested and continued explanation for an observation or phenomena
What is inductive reasoning?
A form of logical thinking that uses related observations to get a conclusion
What is deductive reasoning?
Form of logical thinking that uses a general principle or law to forecast specific results
The attempt to disprove a hypothesis is accomplished by which of the following tasks?
conducting experiments