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| biology | the study of living things |
| science | a way of investigating the world and observing nature in order to form general rules about what causes things to happen |
| hypothesis | a testable explanation for an observation |
| prediction | expected outcome if a hypothesis is accurate |
| control experiment | a comparison of an experimental group with a control group |
| theory | explanation of several phenomena based on hypotheses that have been tested many times |
| development | process of growth and cell specialization |
| homeostasis | tendency to maintain stability in an organism amid environmental change |
| genes | section of chromosome that contains information coding for a trait |
| species | a group of organisms that can interbreed with each other but not with members of any other group |
