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| Biology | The scientific study of life. |
| Life | The set of common characteristics that distinguish living organisms, including such properties and processess as order, regulation, growth and development, metabolism, response to the environment, reproduction, and the capacity to evolve over time. |
| Case Study | An in-depth examination of an actual investigation. |
| Controlled Experiment | A component of the process of science whereby a scientist carries out two parallel tests, and experiemental test and a control test. The experimental test differs from the control by one factor, the variable. |
| Discovery Science | The process of scientific inquiry that focuses on describing nature. |
| Hypothesis | A tentative explanation that a scientist proposes for a specific phenomenon that has been observed. |
| Hypothesis-driven Science | The process of scientific inquiry that uses the steps of the scientific method to answer questions about nature. |
| Natural Selection | Differential success in reproduction by different phenotypes resulting from interactions with the environment. Evolution occurs when natural slection produces changes in the relative frequencies of alleles in a population's gene pool. |
| Science | Any method of learning about the natural world that follows the scientific method. |
| Scientific Method | Scientific investigation involving the observation of phenomenon, the formulation of a hypothesis, concerning the phenomena, experiementation to demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis, and results that validate or modify the hypothesis. |
| Theory | A widely accepted explanatory idea that is broad in scope and supported by a large body of evidence. |
