BIO 100 EXAM 1 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Observation.
Answer: "My Roommate said Biology 200 students smile during lab"
◉ Problems and Questions.
Answer: "What is the most exciting class at Minnesota State
Mankato?"
◉ Hypothesis.
Answer: "Bio 100 is the most exciting class at Minnesota State
Mankato"
◉ Observations and Experiments.
Answer: "All exiting Minnesota State Mankato seniors were given a
survey asking them what class at Mankato the most exciting"
◉ Data Collection and Analysis.
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.
Answer: "You will also find BIO very exciting"
◉ Theories.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Answer: The process of gathering information throughout the
senses.
◉ Subject Expectation.
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.
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.
Answer: Neither the participants nor the researchers know which
participants belong to the control group, nor the test group.
◉ Random Assignment.
Answer: Placement is an experimental technique for assigning
subjects to different treatments
◉ Controlled Variable.
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Observation.
Answer: "My Roommate said Biology 200 students smile during lab"
◉ Problems and Questions.
Answer: "What is the most exciting class at Minnesota State
Mankato?"
◉ Hypothesis.
Answer: "Bio 100 is the most exciting class at Minnesota State
Mankato"
◉ Observations and Experiments.
Answer: "All exiting Minnesota State Mankato seniors were given a
survey asking them what class at Mankato the most exciting"
◉ Data Collection and Analysis.
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.
Answer: "You will also find BIO very exciting"
◉ Theories.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Answer: The process of gathering information throughout the
senses.
◉ Subject Expectation.
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.
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.
Answer: Neither the participants nor the researchers know which
participants belong to the control group, nor the test group.
◉ Random Assignment.
Answer: Placement is an experimental technique for assigning
subjects to different treatments
◉ Controlled Variable.
