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Biology
Chapter 1
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
01/15/2014

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Science
Definition
The method we use to build and understand
Term
Biology
Definition
The study of life
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Quantitative
Definition
Numbers
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Qualitative
Definition
Descriptive
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Inductive Reading
Definition
Conclusion made through repeated observation
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Deductive Reasoning
Definition
Hypothesis based science and conclusion
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Scientific Method
Definition
Observe
Ask a Question
Hypothesis
Test Hypothesis (experiment)
Analyze, Evaluate Hypothesis
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Control
Definition
The things you control
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Independent
Definition
What science changes
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Dependent
Definition
What you measure (outcome)
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Control Variable
Definition
The thing your changing
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Treatment Group
Definition
Where you've altered the independent variable
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Control Group
Definition
Where you know you'll have and outcome, baseline
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Falsify
Definition
Must have way to be proven wrong
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Cell
Definition
Lowest level of living organism
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Prokaryotic
Definition
Bacteria cell, unicellular
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Eukaryotic
Definition
Animal or plant cell
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Domain
Definition
Most general characteristics of life we have
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Evaluation
Definition
Living things don't evolve as a individuals we evolve as a population
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DNA
Definition
The instructions to make proteins
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Mistakes
Definition
Mutations
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New Species
Definition
The inability to reproduce
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Acquired Trait
Definition
A trait that we change in out life but doesn't change out genes and doesn't get passed down
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Endemic
Definition
Species that exist nowhere else (islands)
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The fossil record
Definition
Evidence of evolution
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Anatomic Homologies
Definition
Same bones just different shape, same structure
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Vestigial Organs
Definition
Organs or limbs that have lost or reduced function
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Artificial Selections
Definition
A mutation that normally wouldn't survive in the wild but lives because of care
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Unity in the Diversity of Life
Definition
Things that couldn't be more different but have anatomic similarities
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Three Domains
Definition
Bacteria, Archeae, Eukarya
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Grouping Species
Definition
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order
(Dear, Kate, Please, Come, Out
Family, Genus, Species
For, Goodness, Sake)
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Level of Biological Organization
Definition
Big to small
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Emergent Properties
Definition
Characteristics that we have at a higher level that we don't have at a lower level
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Population
Definition
Grouping of same organism
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Community
Definition
Multiple populations living together
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Ecosystem
Definition
Multiple communities living together
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Reductionism
Definition
Dissecting to find form and function
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Systems Biology
Definition
Reduce and then analyze
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