Biology Review One
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- A Scientific theory is ____.
- a widely acceptable generalization about a fundamental concept in science that explains why things happen
- Deductive reasoning is______.
- a type of reasoning that uses general principles to explain specific observations
- Inductive reasoning is______.
- a type of reaoning that begins with many specific observations and tries to develop a general principle that explains them.
- Biology is ________.
- the scientific study of living things.
- A hypothesis is ____.
- a potntial explanation for an observation. It leads to predictions that can be tested, often by performing an experiment.
- Biologists categorize all living things based on related characteristics into six large groups called____.
- Kingdoms
- Properties that arise from the way simpler components interact to form more complex systems are called _____prperties. Metabolism is an example of this type of property.
- Emergent
- The theory of _____states that the genes of an organism are inherited as discrete units.
- Heredity
- The theory of_____explains the diversity of life on earth stating that natural selection produces many different organisms adapted to the many diverse enviroments on earth.
- Evolution
- The process of using the senses or extnsions of the senses to gather and record information about the natural world is called_____.
- Observation
- These atomic particles are located outside the nucleus, have mass of 1/1836 AMU, and have a negative charge.
- Electrons
- These are forces that combine atoms or ions and hold then together.
- Chemical bonds
- These are the fundamental units of matter. They are the smallest particle of an element that has the prperties of that element.
- Atoms
- These atomic particles are located in the nuclues, have a mass of 1 AMU, and have a positive charge.
- Proton
- These sutbstances are the basic building blocks of matter. They are made of one type of atom. They cannot be broken down into simpler substances through chemical reactions.
- Elements
- These are atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, and therefore different mass numbers.
- isotopes
- This is the formation or rearrangement of chemical bonds that occurs when a attoms or molecules interact with each other to form new combinations.
- Chemical reation
- These paricles are composed of atoms joined by chemical bonds. Water is made of paricles of this type.
- Molecules
- By denfinition, the atomic number of an element is the number of these particles in the nuclues of an atom of that element.
- Protons