BIO 100 EXAM 1 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Observation, Problems and Questions, Hypothesis, Observations and Experimentation, Data collection
and analysis, Conclusions, Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅parts of the scientific method
Observation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"My Roommate said Biology 200 students smile during lab"
Problems and Questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"What is the most exciting class at Minnesota
State Mankato?"
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"Bio 100 is the most exciting class at Minnesota State
Mankato"
Observations and Experiments - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"All exiting Minnesota State Mankato
seniors were given a survey asking them what class at Mankato the most exciting"
Data Collection and Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"For the last 20 years surveys were collected
from exiting seniors and it was found that 99.9% of the seniors that that BIO was the most exciting class
taken at Mankato"
Conclusions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"You will also find BIO very exciting"
Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅an explanation for a natural phenomenon; it is as close to the
truth as scientists can get and is accepted by a majority of scientists.
Questioning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Occurs when you identify and state a problem or ask a
question. Needs to be understandable, doable, and testable, falisifiable.
Good Characteristics of Hypotheses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An educated guess or a possible
explanation for an observed set of facts that lends itself to being tested. Must be testable through
experiments, must be very specific, and can be written in several formats.
, Scientific Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the
natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and
experiment.
Observation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The process of gathering information throughout the senses.
Subject Expectation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Form of reactivity that occurs in scientific
experiments when a research subject expects a given result and therefore unconsciously affects the
outcome
Observer Bias - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Occurs when the observers know the goals of the study or
the hypotheses and allow this knowledge to influence their observations during the study.
Double Blind Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Neither the participants nor the researchers
know which participants belong to the control group, nor the test group.
Random Assignment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Placement is an experimental technique for assigning
subjects to different treatments
Controlled Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The quantities that a scientist wants to remain
constant.
Independent Variables - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The values you are manipulating and have control
over
Dependent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅What you measure in the experiment and what is
affected during the experiment.
Sample Size - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The number of observations in an assignment.
Generalization - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A general statement obtained by inference.
Observation, Problems and Questions, Hypothesis, Observations and Experimentation, Data collection
and analysis, Conclusions, Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅parts of the scientific method
Observation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"My Roommate said Biology 200 students smile during lab"
Problems and Questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"What is the most exciting class at Minnesota
State Mankato?"
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"Bio 100 is the most exciting class at Minnesota State
Mankato"
Observations and Experiments - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"All exiting Minnesota State Mankato
seniors were given a survey asking them what class at Mankato the most exciting"
Data Collection and Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"For the last 20 years surveys were collected
from exiting seniors and it was found that 99.9% of the seniors that that BIO was the most exciting class
taken at Mankato"
Conclusions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"You will also find BIO very exciting"
Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅an explanation for a natural phenomenon; it is as close to the
truth as scientists can get and is accepted by a majority of scientists.
Questioning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Occurs when you identify and state a problem or ask a
question. Needs to be understandable, doable, and testable, falisifiable.
Good Characteristics of Hypotheses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An educated guess or a possible
explanation for an observed set of facts that lends itself to being tested. Must be testable through
experiments, must be very specific, and can be written in several formats.
, Scientific Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the
natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and
experiment.
Observation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The process of gathering information throughout the senses.
Subject Expectation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Form of reactivity that occurs in scientific
experiments when a research subject expects a given result and therefore unconsciously affects the
outcome
Observer Bias - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Occurs when the observers know the goals of the study or
the hypotheses and allow this knowledge to influence their observations during the study.
Double Blind Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Neither the participants nor the researchers
know which participants belong to the control group, nor the test group.
Random Assignment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Placement is an experimental technique for assigning
subjects to different treatments
Controlled Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The quantities that a scientist wants to remain
constant.
Independent Variables - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The values you are manipulating and have control
over
Dependent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅What you measure in the experiment and what is
affected during the experiment.
Sample Size - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The number of observations in an assignment.
Generalization - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A general statement obtained by inference.
