 | Term | Definition |
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Scientific Method |
observation, hypothesis, test, conclusion, retest, and theory |
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Characteristics of Life |
growth, reproduction, dna, cells, and react to environment |
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Levels of Organization |
Molecules, cells, group of cells, organism, populatio, community, ecosystem, and biosphere. |
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Innate Behavior |
Taxis, Kenisis, and FAP's |
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Learned Behavior |
Habituation, Trial and Error, Imprinting, Insight, and Classical conditioning |
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3 Evolutionists |
Lamark, Wallace, and Darwin |
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Theory of Lamark |
Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics |
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Four Steps of Evolution |
Variation, Environmental Pressure, Natural Selection, and Reproduction. |
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Science Def. |
an organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world |
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Theory Def. |
a well-supported hypothesis that has been tested many times |
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Stimulus |
any kind of signal that carries information and can be detected |
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Response |
A single specific reaction to a stimulus. |
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Habituation |
a process by which an animal decreases or stops its response to a repetitive stimulus |
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Classical Conditioning |
when an animal makes a connection between a stimulus and some kind of reward or punishment |
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Insight Learning |
when an animal applies something it has already learned to a new situation |
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Evolution |
change over time |
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fossils |
preserved remains of ancient organisms |
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fitness |
an organism's ability to survive and reproduce |
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adaptation |
any inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival |
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natural selection |
results in changes in the inherited characteristics of a population |
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Homologous structures |
structures that have different mature forms but develop from the same embrio |
