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15 Cards in this Set
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Binomial 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-maintaing 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
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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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Evolutionary history of an organism used today to group organisms into six kingdoms
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Scientific methods
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Procedures used to solve problems and answer questions that can include stating the problem, gathering information, forming a hypothesis,testing the hypothesis with an experiment, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions.
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Spontaneous generation
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Idea that living things come from nonliving things
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Theory
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Explanation if things or events based on scientific knowledge resulting from many observations and experiments
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Variable
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Something in and experiment that an change
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