| A | B |
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| Organism | A living thing |
| Biology | The science of life |
| Cell | The simplest structure of which all living things are made |
| Science | An organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world |
| Observation | Uses one or more of the senses to gather information. |
| Data | Information gathered during an experiment. |
| Inference | A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience |
| Spontaneous Generation | Life can come from non-living things |
| Hypothesis | A possible explanation for a set of observations or an answer to a scientific question |
| Manipulated Variable | The variable that is deliberately changed |
| Responding Variable | The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the other variable. |
| Experimental Group | Group being tested |
| Control Group | Group that is used to measure against |
| Placebo | Thing given so both groups think they receive treatment |
| Blind Study | When the researcher knows which group received the treatment but the groups do not |
| Double Blind Study | When neither the researcher or the test subjects know which group is the experimental group and which is the control. |
| Botany | Study of Plant |
| Ecology | Study of interactions between organisms and their environment |
| Biosphere | The part of the Earth that contains Ecosystems |
| Ecosystem | Community and its nonliving surroundings |
| community | Populations that live together in defined area. |
| population | Goup of organisms of one type that live in the same area |
| Organism | Individual living thing |
| Organ | Group of tissues |
| Tissue | group of cells |
| cell | smallest functional unit of life |
| molecules | groups of atoms, smallest unit of most chemical compounds |
| metabolism | combination of chemical reactions through which an aorganism builds up or breaks down materials as it carries out its life processes |
| homeostasis | A state of equilibrium or biological balance |
| behavior | a complex set of responses |
| evolve | change over time |
| Zoologist | Study of Animals |
| Paleontologists | study of life over time |
| multicellular | organism composed of more than one cell |
| unicellular | organism made up of only one cell |
| theory | a well tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations |
