JCHS Biology 1.1 The Science of Biology

An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.

The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.

a logical interpretation based on what scientist already know.

A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.

An experiment in which only one variable, the independent variable, is manipulated at a time.

The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.

The measurable effect, outcome, or response in which the research is interested.

A group exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group EXCEPT for the independent variable.

the group in an experiment that receives the independent variable being tested.