Biology Vocab Chapter 1

3. The study of often controversial ethical issues that arise as the result of new advances in biology and medicine.
6. The preservation and wise use of natural resources, usually with consideration for the current and future needs of humanity.
8. The use of living systems and organisms to produce new products and technologies, often by manipulating cells or cellular components.
11. A broad philosophical and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment, sometimes at the expense of considerations for human needs and activities.
15. An orderly way of investing phenomena by using measurable and repeatable observations to test a hypothesis.
16. The combination of qualities that God has placed in people as a reflection of himself.

1. A simple, workable representation of a usually complex object or concept.
2. A model that attempts to explain a set of observations.
4. The command given by God to Adam and Eve to fill the earth and have dominion over it. (Genesis 1:28)
5. The explanation or measuring given to a set of observations; affected by one's worldview.
7. Information gathered by using one of the five senses, or the process of gathering such information; can include measurements or descriptions
9. A simple, testable statement that predicts an answer to a question being investigated using the scientific method.
10. The perspective or collection of presuppositions a person uses to view and interpret the world.
12. A description (often mathematical), based on repeated observations of the relationship of two or more phenomena.
13. A subset of observations gathered from within a larger possible set of data.
14. The study of life.