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16 Cards in this Set
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An organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world.
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Science
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They use beams of electrons, rather than light, to produce images.
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Electron Microscope
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The process of gathering information about events or processes in a careful, orderly way.
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Observation
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The information gathered from observations.
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Data
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A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge or experience.
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Inference
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A proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations.
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Hypothesis
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The idea that life could arise from nonliving matter.
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Spontaneous Generation
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A hypothesis should be tested by an experiment in which only one variable is changed at a time. All other variables should be kept unchanged, or controlled.
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Controlled Experiment
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A hypthothesis that becomes well supported by scientists.
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Theory
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The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the manipulated variable.
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Responding Variable
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The variable that is deliberately changed.
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Manipulated Variable
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A decimal system of measurement whose unites are based on certain physical standards and are scaled on multiples of 10.
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Metric System
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A technique used to seperate the different cell parts.
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Cell Fractionation
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Devices that produce magnified images of structures that are too small to see with the unaided eye.
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Microscope
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They allow light to pass through the specimen and use two lenses to form an image.
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Compound Light Microscope
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The cell is able to reproduce so that a group of cells, called a cell culture, develops from the single original cell.
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Cell Culture
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