Author: Shannon Basham

Characteristics of Living Things

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Important Terms
Homeostasis-
Adapt-

Levels Of Organization

Biology— The Study of Life

Scientific Method

State the ____________

Form a ____________

Experiment… Collect _____

Results

________________

Revise/Re-do OR _____

Creating the Hypothesis

Use If…...then… because
Examples:

Designing the Experiment

Control—
Example:
Dependent Variable-
Example:
Independent Variable-
Example:

Graphing Data

Graph the following data;
label the independent variable and the dependent variable;
label the axes and title the graph

Time	Number of cells
0 minutes	4 cells
30 minutes	8 cells
60 minutes	16 cells
90 minutes	32 cells
120 minutes	64 cells

Data

Qualitative:
Example:
Quantitative:
Example:

Experimental Issues

Look up the following definitions…
Hypothesis:
Theory:
Scientific Law:
Inference
Observation:
What is the significance of sample Size?