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Copied directely from the chapter summaries of chapters 1 through 16 of David Krogh's BIOLOGY: A GUIDE TO THE NATURAL WORLD
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
04/30/2009

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CHAPTER 1

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Key Terms and Definitions

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Biology

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the study of life

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Ecology

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the study of the interactions that living things have with each other and with the environment

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Evolution

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Any geneticall based phenotypic change in a population of organisms over succesive generations

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Homeostasis

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The maintenance of a relativly stable internal environment in living things

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Hypothesis

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A tentative, testable explanation of an observed phenomenon

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Life Sciences

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A set of disciplines that focus on various aspects of the living world.

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Molecular Biology

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Th investigation of life at the level of its individual molecules.

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Organismal Biology

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the study of whole organisms

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Physical Sciences

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the natural sciences not concerned with life

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Physiology

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the study of the physical functioning of animals and plants

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Science

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a means of coming to understand the natural world through observation and the testing of hypotheses.

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Scientific Method

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the process by which scientists investigate the natural world

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Theory

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A general set of principles, supported by evidence, that explains some aspect of nature

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Variable

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an element of an expeeriment that is changed compared to an initial condition

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CHAPTER ONE

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