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| The gathering of scientific information by watching a phenomenon |
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| A concluusion that follows logically from a set of observations |
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| A preliminary explanation of a phenomenon. Hypothesis formation is the first step of the scientific method |
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| The testing of a hypothesis |
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| The sceintific evidence produced by an experiment or by observation, from which scientific conclusions are made |
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| Standard scientific research prodcedure in which a hypothesis is stated, data are collected to test it, and the hypothesis is eithher supported or refuted |
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| Able to be shown to be false |
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| A conceptual framework useful for understanding a body of evidence |
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| Ancient belief that people are derived from multiple creations |
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| Ancient belief that all people are derived from a single creation |
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| The science of biological classification |
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| Linnaean naming system for all organisms, consisting of a genus and species label |
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| A group of organisms assigned to a particular catagory |
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| Theory that there have been multiple creations interspersed by great natural disasters such as Noah's flood |
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| Theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics |
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| Discredited theory of evolutionary change proposing that changes that occur during the lifetime of an individual, through use or disuse, can be passed on to the next generation |
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| Soviet-era research program that tried to apply Lamarckian thinking to agricultural production |
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| THeory that the same gradual geological process we observe today was operating in the past |
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| The diversification of one founding species into multiple species and niches |
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| Differential reproductive success over multiple generations |
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| An interbreeding group of organisms |
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| An alteration in the DNA, which may or may not alter the function of a cell. If it occurs in a gamete, it may be passed from one generation to the next |
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| A creationist attempt the refute the evidence of evolution |
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| A creationist school of thought that proposes that natural selection cannot account for the diversity and complexity of form and cuntion seen in nature |
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