Study Guide & Practice Test (Portage Learning Biology)
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,Science - correct answers ✔✔Collection of facts and a process for understanding the
world
Pseudoscience - correct answers ✔✔Individuals make scientific-sounding claims that
are not supported by trustworthy,methodical scientific studies
Biology - correct answers ✔✔Scientific study of life
What can science NOT answer - correct answers ✔✔The existence of God,
understanding of beauty
Hypothesis - correct answers ✔✔Proposed explanation for observed phenomena
Theory - correct answers ✔✔Hypothesis for natural phenomena that is exceptionally
well supported by data
Control - correct answers ✔✔The attempt to minimize any differences between a control
group and an experimental group other than the independent variable
Double blind study - correct answers ✔✔Neither the experimental subjects nor the
experimenter knows which treatment the subject is receiving
Atom - correct answers ✔✔Smallest unit of matter, contains nucleus and negatively
charged electrons
Molecule - correct answers ✔✔Product of atom bonding, groups of atoms held together
by bonds, bonds are broken, releasing the energy that was used to create them
, Hydrogen bonding - correct answers ✔✔Bonding among water molecules that gives
water several important properties
Properties of water - correct answers ✔✔Cohesion, large heat capacity, low density as
a solid and a good solvent
Carbs - correct answers ✔✔Macro-molecules that function as fuel
Sugars - correct answers ✔✔Most efficient source f energy storage and insulation, type
of lipid
Monosaccharides - correct answers ✔✔Simplest carbohydrates, 3-7 carbon atoms
Fats - correct answers ✔✔Long term energy storage and insulation, type of lipid
Proteins - correct answers ✔✔Chief building blocks of all life.
Proteins make up.. - correct answers ✔✔Skin, feathers, horns, bones, muscles
Protein do.. - correct answers ✔✔Control levels of sugar and other chemicals in your
bloodstream
Stop you from bleeding to death
Carry oxygen from place in your body to another