BIO 182 EXAM 1 PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ What is an example of inductive reasoning?
Answer: After observing that several purple pea plants produce
purple offspring, you conclude that purple flower color may be
inherited.
◉ What is deductive reasoning?
Answer: Using a general principle to predict a specific outcome.
◉ What is an example of deductive reasoning?
Answer: If purple flowers are dominant, then crossing a
heterozygous purple plant with a white plant should produce
approximately 50% purple and 50% white offspring.
◉ What are the steps of the scientific method?
Answer: Observation, question, hypothesis, prediction, experiment,
data collection and analysis, conclusion, and communication or
revision.
◉ What is a hypothesis?
Answer: A testable and falsifiable explanation for an observation.
, ◉ What is a prediction?
Answer: A statement describing the expected result if a hypothesis is
correct, often written as an if-then statement.
◉ What is the difference between a hypothesis and a prediction?
Answer: A hypothesis explains why something happens, while a
prediction states what should happen if the hypothesis is correct.
◉ What is empirical evidence?
Answer: Information collected through direct observation,
measurement, or experimentation.
◉ What did Mendel discover through his pea plant research?
Answer: Traits are inherited through discrete units called genes,
organisms receive two alleles per gene, some alleles are dominant or
recessive, and alleles separate when gametes form.
◉ What is Mendel's law of segregation?
Answer: The two alleles for a gene separate during meiosis, so each
gamete receives only one allele.
◉ What gametes can an Aa individual produce?
DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ What is an example of inductive reasoning?
Answer: After observing that several purple pea plants produce
purple offspring, you conclude that purple flower color may be
inherited.
◉ What is deductive reasoning?
Answer: Using a general principle to predict a specific outcome.
◉ What is an example of deductive reasoning?
Answer: If purple flowers are dominant, then crossing a
heterozygous purple plant with a white plant should produce
approximately 50% purple and 50% white offspring.
◉ What are the steps of the scientific method?
Answer: Observation, question, hypothesis, prediction, experiment,
data collection and analysis, conclusion, and communication or
revision.
◉ What is a hypothesis?
Answer: A testable and falsifiable explanation for an observation.
, ◉ What is a prediction?
Answer: A statement describing the expected result if a hypothesis is
correct, often written as an if-then statement.
◉ What is the difference between a hypothesis and a prediction?
Answer: A hypothesis explains why something happens, while a
prediction states what should happen if the hypothesis is correct.
◉ What is empirical evidence?
Answer: Information collected through direct observation,
measurement, or experimentation.
◉ What did Mendel discover through his pea plant research?
Answer: Traits are inherited through discrete units called genes,
organisms receive two alleles per gene, some alleles are dominant or
recessive, and alleles separate when gametes form.
◉ What is Mendel's law of segregation?
Answer: The two alleles for a gene separate during meiosis, so each
gamete receives only one allele.
◉ What gametes can an Aa individual produce?
