Biology Class Test Term 1 Flashcards
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Biology
Study of Life
Organisms
Living things that has an organized structure, react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt, and mantain homeostasis.
Scientific Method
- Observation and Question
- Research
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Analysis and conclusion
- Share the result
Hypothesis
Our prediction for the experiment
Types of Variables
- Dependent
- Controlled
- Independent
Dependent Variable
A variable that is affected by the independent variable and will be measured in the experiment
Independent Variable
A variable that is changed throughout the experiment
Controlled Variable
A variable that will always stay the same in the experiment
MRS GREN
Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, Nutrition
Heterotroph
Living things that get food from eating other living things
Autrotoph
Living thing that can make their own food (photosynthesis)
Vertebrates
Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone. The examples are mammals, fish, bird, amphibians, and reptiles.
Invertebrates
Invertebrates are animals without a backbone, like Arthropods, Molluscs, Echinoderms, Cnidarians, Annelids, Nematodes, Flatworms
Platypus
Platypus is an unusual mammal that lays eggs.
Non flowering plants
Plants that doesn’t produce flowers, like mosses, ferns, and conifers.
Flowering plants
Plants that produce flowers like monocotyledons and dicotyledons
Monocots
These folwer’s petals are in three’s
DICOTS
these flower’s petals are in 4’s or 5’s