Epistemology - study of knowledge
logic, language, emotion, sensory - the four common ways of knowing
Empiricism - the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely
on observation and experimentation
deductive reasoning - reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then
applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every morning; therefore, the sun will rise on
Tuesday morning.)
inductive reasoning - A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific
observations.
biodiversity - the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
Robert Whittaker - added Fungi as a fifth kingdom of eukaryotic microbes
Carl Woese - three domain based on r RNA (eukarya, bacteria, archaea)
scale nature - Aristotle's hierarchical ordering of living organisms
Linneas - classified organisms based on physical appearance;
ecology - Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their
environment
population dispersion patterns - clumped, uniform, random