What is Biology?

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Define Biology

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Science that deals with the study of life

Question 2

Define Science

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A process used to solve problems or develop an understanding of repetitive natural events that involves the accumulation of knowledge and the testing of the possible answers

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A way of gaining information about the world by forming possible answers to questions, followed by rigorous testing to determine if the proposed explanations are supported by the facts

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Scientific Method

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What are the basic assumptions of science?

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• There are specific causes for naturally reoccurring events
• The causes for events can be identified
• General rules can be used to describe nature
• A repeatable event probably have the same cause
• Observable by many
• Same fundamental rules of nature apply regardless of when or where

Question 5

Describe cause and effect relationships

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When an event occurs as a direct result of a previous event

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Complete the following sentence

The Scientific method involves an orderly, careful _____ for ______

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The scientific method involves an orderly, careful SEARCH for INFORMATION

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Checking and Rechecking are involved in what?

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The scientific method

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What are the components of the scientific method?

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• Careful observation
• Constructing and testing of hypothesis
• An openness to new information and ideas
• A willingness to submit one’s ideas to scrutiny of others

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How do we make an observation

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through smell sight hearing taste touch

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What is an extension of observation?

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microscope sound recorder x ray machine thermometer

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A statement that provides a possible answer to a question

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Hypothesis

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What are the characteristics of a hypothesis

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• Must be logical
• Must account for all the relevant information available
• Must allow for one to predict future events relating to question
• Must be testable

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What is validity?

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Able to be justified; on target

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Explain what an experiment is

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a recreation of an experiment that allows a scientist to prove or disprove a hypothesis

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Many separate factors are

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Variables

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When one variable experiment is present it is known as

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controlled experiment

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A _____ group is a group in which there is no manipulation of the variable

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CONTROL group

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An Experimental group is defined as?

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A group in which a variable is manipulated

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_______ variable is expected to change as a direct result of the manipulation of the independent variable

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Dependent Variable

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Independent variable is

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The variable that is manipulated

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Another word for reliable

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trustworthy

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What is inductive reasoning?

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Process of developing general principles from the examination of many sets of specific facts

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Deductive reasoning is?

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The process of using general principles to predict the specific facts of a situation

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Define scientific theory

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Widely accepted, plausible, general statement about fundamental concepts in science that explain why things happen

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A uniform or constant fact of nature that describes what happens in nature

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Scientific law

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What is the difference between scientific law and theories

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Scientific laws describes what happens and theories describe why things happen

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A deceptive practice that uses the appearance or language of science to convince confuse or mislead people into thinking something has scientific validity

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Pseudoscience

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____ is the ability to do work or cause things to move

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Energy

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Anything that has mass and takes up space

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Matter

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List the characteristics that living things have

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• unique structure organization
• metabolic structure
• generative processes
• responsive processes
• control processes

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Cells are the __________ structural units of all living things

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fundamental

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Any living thing that is capable of functioning independently

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Organism

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Metabolism is

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Chemical reactions involving molecules required for a cell to grow, reproduce, and make repairs

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Food

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Nutrients

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Generative Process

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Activities that result in an increase in size of organism or increase the number of individuals in a population

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Responsive process

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Allows organisms to respond to changes in their environment in a meaningful way

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Define Irritability

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individuals ability to recognize that something in its surroundings has changed and to respond rapidly to it

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Regulation

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Proper rate

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Coordination

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Proper sequence

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Energy of motion is known as

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kinetic energy

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stored energy is known as

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potential energy

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list the five forms of energy

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mechanical, nuclear, electrical, radiant and chemical

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The phrase “Energy can never be created or destroyed” is the

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Law of Conservation of energy

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define chemistry

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science concerned with the study of composition structure and properties of matter and the changes it undergoes

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Cell theory

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States that all living things come from cells

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the smallest unit that displays the characteristics of life

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cell

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The basic structural and functional unit of living things

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cell

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The first formed substance

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protoplasm

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Little organs

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organelles