The Study Of Life
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- The gradual accumulations of adaptations over time is ____________
- evolution
- 25 Orcas or killer whales live in social units called__________
- pods
- Refers to the moral prindiples and values held by humans
- ethics
- From the greek work bios, meaning life, and logos meaning study. _________ is the study of life Biology is the study of life
- biology
- All living things show an orderly structure, or an ___________
- organization
- All of the changes that take place during the life of an organism are known as its ____________
- development
- Regulation of an organisms internal environment to maintain conditions suitable for its survival is called _____________
- homeostasis
- Organisms live in constant interface with their surroundings, or ________, which includes the air, wate, weather, temperature, and other organisms and
- environment
- An organisms reaction to a stimulus in a ______________
- response
- Energy is the ability to do ____________
- work
- Any condition in the enviromnent that requires an organism to adjust is a _____________
- stimulus
- Any structure, behavior, or internal process that enables an organism to respond to stimuli and better survive in an environment is called an ________
- adaptation
- The common steps that biologists and other scientists use to gather information and answer questions are __________________
- scientific methods
- A procedure that tests a hypothesis by the process of collecting information under controlled conditions is called an _____________
- experiment
- The conditon in an experiment that is changed is the __________
- independent variable
- _______ is an explanation for a question or a problem that can be formally tested Hypothesis
- hypothesis
- The group in an experiment in which all the conditions are kept the same is the _________
- control
- While changing the independent variable, the scientist obserfes or measures a second concition that results from the change, this is the _____________
- dependent variable
- Information obtained from experinets is called _________
- data
- A _________ is an explanation of a natural phenomenon that is supported by a large body of scientific evidence obtained from many different investigat
- theory