BIO 180 MIDTERM 1 Latest Exam
Questions and Answers with Rationales,
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What can scientists answer? - Correct Answers ✅--Things
that can be answered by measuring things by collecting data
How to biologists test ideas about natural world? - Correct
Answers ✅1) Ask question
2) develop one or more hypothesis
3) make one or more predictions
4) test predictions
5) results
Hypothesis - Correct Answers ✅--a proposed explanation
--educated guess as to the answer to your question
Ex: Why are my daisies wilting?
hypothesis: daisies are wilting because they didn't get
enough water
Prediction - Correct Answers ✅--more practical than
hypothesis
--a statement of what we should measure or observe in
nature if hypothesis is correct
Ex: If I water daisies sufficiently then my daisies will no
longer wilt
, BIO 180 MIDTERM 1 Latest Exam
Questions and Answers with Rationales,
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Theory - Correct Answers ✅--a proposed explanation for a
very broad class of phenomena or observations
--don't call something a theory unless there is a lot of data to
support it
Evolution by natural selection explains: - Correct Answers
✅1) diversity and similarities of organisms
2) adaptations to the environment
Special creation - Correct Answers ✅--Pattern:
1) species independent/separate entities
2) species static/don't change over time
--Process: each species created separately and
instantaneously by divine being
--view earth as very young and some species are better than
others
Evolution by Darwin and Wallace - Correct Answers ✅--
Pattern "descent with modification":
1) Species related by common ancestry
2) species change through time
--Process: Natural selection
Questions and Answers with Rationales,
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What can scientists answer? - Correct Answers ✅--Things
that can be answered by measuring things by collecting data
How to biologists test ideas about natural world? - Correct
Answers ✅1) Ask question
2) develop one or more hypothesis
3) make one or more predictions
4) test predictions
5) results
Hypothesis - Correct Answers ✅--a proposed explanation
--educated guess as to the answer to your question
Ex: Why are my daisies wilting?
hypothesis: daisies are wilting because they didn't get
enough water
Prediction - Correct Answers ✅--more practical than
hypothesis
--a statement of what we should measure or observe in
nature if hypothesis is correct
Ex: If I water daisies sufficiently then my daisies will no
longer wilt
, BIO 180 MIDTERM 1 Latest Exam
Questions and Answers with Rationales,
A+ Guarantee 2026
Theory - Correct Answers ✅--a proposed explanation for a
very broad class of phenomena or observations
--don't call something a theory unless there is a lot of data to
support it
Evolution by natural selection explains: - Correct Answers
✅1) diversity and similarities of organisms
2) adaptations to the environment
Special creation - Correct Answers ✅--Pattern:
1) species independent/separate entities
2) species static/don't change over time
--Process: each species created separately and
instantaneously by divine being
--view earth as very young and some species are better than
others
Evolution by Darwin and Wallace - Correct Answers ✅--
Pattern "descent with modification":
1) Species related by common ancestry
2) species change through time
--Process: Natural selection
