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- As evidence from numerous investigations build up, a particular hypothesis may become so well supported that scientists consider it a _____________________.
- The combination of chemical reactions through which a organism builds up or breaks down materials as it carries out its life processes.
- Using one or more senses to gather information.
- As a group, any given kind of organism can change over time, or __________________.
- Living things are made up of small, self-contained units called ___________________.
- A possible explanation for a set of observations or an answer to a scientific question.
- Type of reproduction in which the new organism has only one parent.
- The information gathered from observations.
- An organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world.
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- Type of reproduction in which two cells from different parents unit to produce the first cells of the new organism.
- Variable that is deliberately changed in an experiment.
- The science that seeks to understand the living world.
- A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.
- The process by which organisms keep their internal conditions relatively stable.
- The variable in an experiment that is observed and changes in response to the manipulated variable.
- Type of experiment by which only one variable is changed at a time. All other variables should be kept unchanged.
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