Biology Lecture Notes - Scientific Method, Life Properties, and Experimental Design

Vocabulary flashcards created from lecture notes covering the scientific method, properties of life, biological domains, emergent properties, and basic experimental design terms.

Biology

The study of life.

Qualitative

Deals with descriptions, words, and meanings.

Quantitative

Deals with numbers, measurements, and statistics.

Order

A property of life where living things are built in an organized way out of cells.

Reproduction

A property of life where living things make copies of themselves to pass on their genes.

Growth and Development

A property of life where living things grow and change based on instructions in their DNA.

Energy Processing

A property of life where living things eat food or use sunlight to get energy.

Regulation

A property of life where living things control their insides to stay healthy (like sweating to cool down, known as homeostasis).

Response to Environment

A property of life where living things react to changes around them (like a plant leaning toward the sun).

Evolutionary Adaptation

A property of life where groups of living things change over long periods of time to survive better in their homes.

Archaea

Single celled organisms, which are the oldest domain and can be found in volcanos.

Bacteria

Single celled organisms (germs).

Eukarya

A domain of living things that are multicellular, including fungi, Animalia, and protists.

Emergent Properties

A new characteristic that a complex system gains when its individual parts interact together.

Biological Hierarchy Level Sequence

cell -> tissue -> organ -> organ system -> organism

Evolution

The process of change throughout time due to conditions.

Flow of Information

A main theme of biology where genetic info is passed from parent to offspring.

System Biology

An approach where scientists attempt to model behavior of biological systems by analyzing.

Independent Variable

The variable manipulated by researchers (what we change).

Dependent Variable

The variable that is being measured.

Control Group

The baseline group in an experiment.