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| scientific methods | procedures used to solve problems and answer questions |
| hypothesis | prediction that can be tested |
| control | standard to which the outcome of a test is compared |
| variable | something in an experiment that can change |
| theory | explanation of things or events based on scientific knowledge resulting from scientific studies |
| law | statement about how things work in nature that seems to be true consistently |
| organism | any living thing |
| cell | smallest unit of an organism that can carry on life functions |
| homeostasis | regulation of an organism's internal, life-maintaining conditions |
| spontaneous generation | idea that living things come from nonliving things |
| biogenesis | theory that living things come only from other living things |
| phylogeny | evolutionary history of an organism; used today to group organisms into six kingdoms |
| kingdom | first and largest category used to classify organisms |
| binomial nomenclature | two-word naming system that gives all organisms their scientific name |
| genus | 1st word of the two-word scientific name used to identify a group of similar species |
