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| procedures used to solve problems and answer questions. |
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| Steps to the Scientific Method |
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Stating the problem
gathering information
forming a hypothesis
testing they hypothesis with an experiment
analyzing data
drawing conclusions |
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| Something in an experiment that can change. |
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| anything that causes some change in an organism is a stimulus. |
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| Developed the present day system of clasification. |
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| Carolus Linnaeus birth name |
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| What did Carolus Linnaeus develop? |
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pylogeny -
genus/group
species/kind |
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| When did Linnaeus classify plants and animals? (year) |
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1753 - plants
1758 - animals |
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| ability of an organism to keep proper internal condition no matter what external stimuli are occuring. |
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| Stanley Miller & Harold Urey |
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| Sent electrical currents through a mixture of gases like those thought to be in Earth's early atmosphere. When the gases cooled they condensed to form an oceanlike liquid that contained materials such a amino acids, found in present day cells. |
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| What year did Miller & Urey conduct their famous experiment? |
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| smallest unit of an organism that can carry on life functions |
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| smallest unit of an organism that can carry on life functions |
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| statement about how things work in nature that seems to be true consistently |
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| process by which plants and many other producers use light energy from the sun to make sugars, which can be used as food |
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| two-word naming system that gives all organisms their scientific name |
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| standard to which the outcome of a test is compared |
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| Act or arranging into groups |
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| Disproved Spontaneous Generation by boiling broth in s-necked flasks that were open to the air. The broth became cloudy only when a flask was tilted and the broth was exposed to dust in the s-neck. |
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| What year did Pasteur disprove Spontaneous Generation? |
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| Explanation of things or events based on scientific knowledge resulting from may observations and experiments. |
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| prediction that can be tested |
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| Hypothesized that energy from the sun, lightning, and Earth's heat triggered chemical reactions early in Earth's history. The newly formed molecules washed into Earth's ancient oceans and became a part of what is often called primordial soup. |
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| What year did Oparin make his hypothesis? |
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| Boiled broth in sealed flasks - hotter than Needham and longer. Only the ones he opened became cloudy with contamination. This disproved Spontaneous Generation.. |
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| What year did Spallanzani do his experiment? |
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| Heated broth in sealed flasks. Mistakenly concluded that microorganisms developed spontaneously from broth. |
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| What year did Needham conduct his experiment? |
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| put decaying meat in jars. Covered half. Concluded fly eggs (maggots) did not come from meat. Disproved Spontaneous Generation. |
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| What year did Redi conduct his experiment? |
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| First and Largest category used to classify organisms |
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| any variation that makes an organism better suited to its environment |
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| evolutionary history of an organism; used today to group organisms into six kingdoms. |
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| any living things that are made of cells, use energy, reproduce, respond, and grow and develop. |
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| idea that living things come from non living things |
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| first word of the tow word scientific name used to identify a group of similar species |
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| theory that living things come only from other living things |
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