Biology Chapter 1 Study Guide

Process of gathering information about events or processes in a careful, orderly way using the senses

Information gathered through observation or experimentation.

<p>A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hypothesis stating that life could arise from nonliving matter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The one thing that you are changing in the experiment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A variable that changes in response to a change in the manipulated variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Science that seeks to understand the living world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collection of living matter enclosed by a barrier that separates the cell from its surroundings; basic unit of all forms of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process by which cells from two different parents unite to produce the first cell of a new organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process by which a single parent reproduces by itself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the chemical reactions that occur within an organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A signal to which an organism responds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability of a group of organisms to change over time for survival in an ever-changing world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A decimal system of measurements whose units are based on certain physical standards and are scaled on multiples of 10.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An instrument that makes small objects look larger.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Microscope that allows light to pass through a specimen and uses two lenses to form an image.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Microscope that forms an image by focusing beams of electrons onto a specimen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Group of cells grown in a nutrient solution from a single original cell.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Technique in which cells are broken into pieces and the different cell parts are separated.</p> Signup and view all the answers