Campbell essential biology 3rd edition chapter 1
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| 854690091 | biology | The scientific study of life | 0 | |
| 854690092 | life | the set of common characteristics that distinguish living organisms, including such properties and processes as order, regulation, growth and development, energy utilization, response to the environment, reproduction, and the capacity to evolve over time | 1 | |
| 854690093 | ecosystem | all the organisms in a given area, along with the nonliving (abiotic) factors with which they interact; a biological community and its physical environment | 2 | |
| 854690094 | scientific method | scientific investigation involving the observation of phenomena, the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, experimentation to demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis, and results that validate or modify the hypothesis | 3 | |
| 854690095 | controlled experiment | a component of the process of science whereby a scientist carries out two parallel tests, an experimental test and a control test. The experimental test differs from the control by one factor, the variable. | 4 | |
| 854690096 | hypothesis | a tentative explanation that a scientist proposes for a specific phenomenon that has been observed | 5 | |
| 854690097 | biosphere | the global ecosystem; the entire portion of earth inhabited by life; all of life and where it lives | 6 | |
| 854690098 | natural selection | a process in which organisms with certain inherited characteristics are more likely to survive ans reproduce than are organisms with other characteristics; differential reproductive success. | 7 | |
| 854690099 | theory | a widely accepted explanatory idea that is broad in scope of supported by a large body of evidence | 8 | |
| 854690100 | discovery science | the process of scientific inquiry that focuses on describing nature | 9 | |
| 854690101 | science | any method of learning about the natural world that follows the scientific method. | 10 | |
| 854690102 | hypothesis-driven science | the process of scientific inquiry that uses the steps of scientific method to answer questions about nature | 11 |
