Which term means to look at something carefully by paying attention to its parts?

• A. Analyze
• B. Conclusion
• C. Observation
• D. Experiment

Answer: (A)

Analyzing means breaking something into parts and examining how those parts fit together. When you look at something carefully by paying attention to its parts, you are analyzing it. This approach helps you understand how each piece works and how they relate to one another, not just what you see on the surface. For example, analyzing a plant stem involves inspecting the arrangement of tissues like xylem and phloem and figuring out how they support transport, rather than merely noting the stem’s color or shape. Observation is simply noticing features, a conclusion is a final judgment drawn from evidence, and an experiment is a controlled procedure to test ideas. So, the term that fits the described process is analyze.