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15 Cards in this Set
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Binormal Nomenclature
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two word naming system that gives all organisms their scientific name
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Biogenesis
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theory that living things come only from other living things
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Cell
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smallest unit of an organism that can carry on life functions
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Control
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standard to which the outcome of a test is compared
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Genus
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first word of the two-word scientific name used to identify a group of similar species
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Homeostasis
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regulation of an organism's internal, life maintaining conditions
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Hypothesis
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prediction that can be tested
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kingdom
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first and largest category used to classify organisms
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law statement
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statement about how things work in nature that seems to be true consistently
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organism
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any living thing
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Phylogeny
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evoulutionary history of an organism into six kingdoms.
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scientific methods
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procedures used to solve problems and answer questions that can inculde stating the problem, gathering information, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis with an experiment, analyizing data, and drawing conclusions.
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spontaneous genertaion
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idea that living things come from non-living things
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theory
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explantion of things or events based on scientific knowledge resulting from many observations and experiments
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variable
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something in an experiment that can change
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