| A | B |
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| Binomial nomenclature | two-word naming system that gives all organisms their scientific name |
| Biogenesis | theory that living things come only from other living things |
| Cell | smallest unit of an organism that can carry on life functions |
| Control | standard to which the outcome of a test is compared |
| Genus | first word of the two-word scientific name used to identify a group of similar species |
| Homeostasis | regulation of an organism’s internal, life-maintaining conditions |
| Kingdom | first and largest category used to classify organisms |
| Law | statement about how things work in nature that seems to be true consistently |
| Organism | any living thing |
| Phylogeny | evolutionary history of an organism; used to day to group organism into 6 kingdoms |
| Scientific method | procedures used to solve problems and answer questions that can include stating the problem, gathering information, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis with an experiment, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions |
| Spontaneous generation | idea that living things come from nonliving things |
| Theory | explanation of things or events based on scientific knowledge resulting from many observations and experiments |
| Variable | something in an experiment that can change |
| Hypothesis | prediction that can be tested |
