BIO 110 WAKE TECH UNIT 1 STUDY GUIDE | GENERAL BIOLOGY PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | COMPLETE UNIT 1 REVIEW
Science - correct answer ✔✔Intellectual activity, observation, description, experimentation, and
explanation
Science - correct answer ✔✔Pathway by which we can come to discover and better understand
our world
Biology - correct answer ✔✔The study of living things
Biology - correct answer ✔✔Chemical and physical basis for life, genetics, diversity of life, and
organisms and their environment
Scientific literacy - correct answer ✔✔a general, fact-based understanding of the basics of
biology and other sciences
Biological literacy - correct answer ✔✔The ability to (1) use the process of scientific inquiry to
think creatively about real-world issues that have a biological component, (2) communicate
these thoughts to others, and (3) integrate these ideas into your decision making.
Scientific Method - correct answer ✔✔Five basic steps and one flexible process
Scientific Thinking - correct answer ✔✔An empirical way of looking at science; what the book
uses to replace the rigid scientific method
Empirical - correct answer ✔✔Based on practical experience rather than theory or logic
, 5 steps of scientific method - correct answer ✔✔Observation, hypothesis, prediction,
experiment, and conclusion
Hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔A proposed explanation for observed phenomena
Null hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔A hypothesis that states a lack of relationship between two
factors
Critical experiment - correct answer ✔✔An experiment that makes it possible to decisively
determine whether a particular hypothesis is correct
Placebo - correct answer ✔✔A fake drug used in the testing of medication that has no effect
Scientific theory - correct answer ✔✔An explanatory hypothesis for natural phenomena that is
exceptionally well-supported by the empirical data
Designing experiments - correct answer ✔✔Includes treatment, experimental group, control
group, and variables
Treatment - correct answer ✔✔Any experimental condition applied to the research subjects
Experimental group - correct answer ✔✔A group of subjects who are exposed to a particular
treatment
Control group - correct answer ✔✔A group of subjects who are treated identically to the
experimental group but are not exposed to the treatment
Variables - correct answer ✔✔The characteristics of an experimental system that are subject to
change
ANSWERS | COMPLETE UNIT 1 REVIEW
Science - correct answer ✔✔Intellectual activity, observation, description, experimentation, and
explanation
Science - correct answer ✔✔Pathway by which we can come to discover and better understand
our world
Biology - correct answer ✔✔The study of living things
Biology - correct answer ✔✔Chemical and physical basis for life, genetics, diversity of life, and
organisms and their environment
Scientific literacy - correct answer ✔✔a general, fact-based understanding of the basics of
biology and other sciences
Biological literacy - correct answer ✔✔The ability to (1) use the process of scientific inquiry to
think creatively about real-world issues that have a biological component, (2) communicate
these thoughts to others, and (3) integrate these ideas into your decision making.
Scientific Method - correct answer ✔✔Five basic steps and one flexible process
Scientific Thinking - correct answer ✔✔An empirical way of looking at science; what the book
uses to replace the rigid scientific method
Empirical - correct answer ✔✔Based on practical experience rather than theory or logic
, 5 steps of scientific method - correct answer ✔✔Observation, hypothesis, prediction,
experiment, and conclusion
Hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔A proposed explanation for observed phenomena
Null hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔A hypothesis that states a lack of relationship between two
factors
Critical experiment - correct answer ✔✔An experiment that makes it possible to decisively
determine whether a particular hypothesis is correct
Placebo - correct answer ✔✔A fake drug used in the testing of medication that has no effect
Scientific theory - correct answer ✔✔An explanatory hypothesis for natural phenomena that is
exceptionally well-supported by the empirical data
Designing experiments - correct answer ✔✔Includes treatment, experimental group, control
group, and variables
Treatment - correct answer ✔✔Any experimental condition applied to the research subjects
Experimental group - correct answer ✔✔A group of subjects who are exposed to a particular
treatment
Control group - correct answer ✔✔A group of subjects who are treated identically to the
experimental group but are not exposed to the treatment
Variables - correct answer ✔✔The characteristics of an experimental system that are subject to
change
