Review sheet for prologue chapter test

Be able to define:
Control group

Controlled experiment

DNA/ RNA

Experimental group

Fossil

Gene (simple definition)

Genetic engineering (simple definition)

HGH- human growth hormone

Hypothesis

Inference (examples)

Observation (examples)

Protein cxamples (6)

Pseudoscience (examples and why are they considered Psuedoscience?)

Qualitative data (examples)

Quantitative data (examples)

Theory (examples)

Variable (independent and dependent)

Understand these concepts & understand how they may interrelate. Be able to explain them.

· Characteristics of science

· Steps of the scientific method

· Know how to design a controlled experiment

· Darwin’s Evolution by Natural Selection (describe)

· Lyell, Malthus

· Giraffe or other example

· Lamarck’s Acquired Characteristics

· Giraffe or other example

· Characteristics of life

· Old method/ new method of acquiring HGH

· Problems with both methods (difficulty, contamination vs. abuse)

· Why study biology?