| A | B |
| organisms | any living thing |
| spontaneous generation | a theory stating that living organisms are produced from nonliving things/ethers |
| biogenesis | a theory stating that life arises from living thing |
| scientific method | predictions,designing of an experiment, observations, intrepreting those observations |
| variable | a factor that can change during the course of the experiment |
| theory | a hypothesis that is supported by many experiments done over a period of time |
| symbiosis | a relationship in which 2 different organisms live in close association |
| commensalism | relationship in which one organism benefit from an interaction & the other organism is neither helped nor harmed by it |
| mutualism | symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit |
| parasitism | a symbiotic relationship between 2 organisms in which one species harms the other species |