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'Biologists generally form hypotheses using deductive reasoning?
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| A cell that contains one member of each chromosome pair. |
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| A cross involving two different traits. |
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A law is a possible explanation for a scientific question?
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A natural law is based on the analysis of data collected in a controlled experiment?
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| An organism's tendency to maintain a stable interval environment. |
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| Any structure, behavior, or internal process that enables an organism to better survive in an environment. |
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Biologists discover problems by observing the world around them?
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| Explain the relationship amony and organism's environment, adaptations, and evolution. |
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| Organism's don't live in isolation in their environment. Organism's have to adapt to survive in their environment. If they don't evolve they won't beat the predator thus sending them to extinction. |
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For ease of understanding, scientists report measurements using the English system?
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In an experiment, the control group is used to test the effect of the independent variable?
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| The alleles present for a trait are the same. |
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| The cell produced when a male gamete fuses with a female gamete. |
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| The exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes. |
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| The gradual change in the characteristics of a species over time. |
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The liter is a metric unit of volume?
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| The living and nonliving factors in an organism's surroundings. |
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| The passing of characteristics from parents to offspring. |
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| The process whereby an organism produces more of its own kind. |
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| The series of changes that an organism undergoes during it lifetime. |
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| The type of cell division that produces gametes. |
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| The uniting of the male and female gametes. |
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| Why is crossing in Prophase I of meiosis over important to the survival of a species? |
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| Crossing over is important because it gives genetic variability and drives evolution, thus the ones most fit survive and reproduce. |
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