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| The smallest units of life |
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| All chemical reactions that occur within living things. Used to extract energy from various nutrients. |
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| The relatively constant and self-correcting internal environment of a living organism |
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| traits that help an organism survive and reproduce in its natural environment |
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| Individuals of the same species (that can interbreed) living in a distinct geographic area |
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| includes all the living organisms in a community along with their physical environment |
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| The part of the earth that supports life |
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| a systematic approach to answering questions about the things humans observe |
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| a way of learning about the natural world by applying certain rules of logic to the way information is gathered and conclusions are drawn |
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| An educated guess about the answer to a question |
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| Research subjects are randomly divided into two groups |
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| The group in which the variable is unaltered for comparison to the other group |
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| The group in which the variable is altered |
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| The factor that differs between the control group and experimental group |
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| An interpretation of the results of the data |
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| A measure of the possibility that the results were due to chance |
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| A well-supported and wide-ranging explanation of some aspect of the physical universe |
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| Facts are accumulated through observation until the sheer weigh of the evidence allows some logical general statement to be made |
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| A logical progression of thought proceeding from the general the specific. Making specific deductions based of a larger generalization or premise. "If-Then" |
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| An innocuous, non-drug made to look like the drug being tested |
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| Lists all the possible harmful effects of the drug or treatment and must be signed before a person can take part in a study |
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| Involves the ability to recognize what you need to know, locate relevant information, evaluate it, apply it to the problem at hand, and communicate it effectively |
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| Information Technology Literacy |
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| Much of the information that comes to us through technology |
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| all living species that can potentially interact in a particular geographic area |
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| The chemical components of cells |
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