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What does the word Biology mean?
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What are the 6 characteristics of living things?
Explain how viruses do or don't fit these characteristics.
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- Living things are organized
- They need materials and energy
- They maintain internal control (homeostasis)
- Respond to their environment
- They Reproduce and grow
- Adapt to the environment around them
Viruses don't fit these characteristics because they are not made of cells, cant maintain homeostasis, cannot grow, and cannot make their own energy |
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| Define and give the usual steps of the scientific method |
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Observation - Understanding the experiment
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Hypothesis - The educated guess that you think will happen
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Experiment - Testing your hypothesis
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Conclusion - After experimenting, figuring out what happened and why it did |
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| Compare hypothesis, theory, and law. |
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Hypothesis - An educated guess for an observation
Theory - A concept that joins together well-supported and related hypotheses
e.g. - The theory of evolution
Laws - Well-tested concepts, accepted as fact
e.g. - The Law of Gravity |
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