Key Concepts in Biology

The science that studies living organisms.

Anything that possesses all the characteristics of life.

Orderly structure shown by living things.

<p>The process of change that occurs during an organism's life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increase in the amount of living material and formation of new structures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of producing offspring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reaction to a stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inherited characteristic that improves an organism's ability to survive and reproduce.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regulation of an organism's internal environment to maintain conditions needed for life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Summarizing statement of observed experimental facts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Well-tested explanation that makes sense of a variety of scientific observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A process in which scientists evaluate each other's work.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The moral principles and values held by humans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assumption based on prior experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Orderly, direct information gathering about a natural phenomenon.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A series of steps followed to solve problems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A procedure carried out under controlled conditions to test a fact or theory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A testable prediction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Variable that is not changed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information gathered from observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The factor that is being measured in an experiment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Factor in an experiment that researchers manipulate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The group that is exposed to the treatment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A decimal system of measurement based on physical standards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Le Système International d'Unités.</p> Signup and view all the answers