BIO 182 Exam 1 ASU Questions with Correct Answers

BIO 182 Exam 1 ASU Questions with Correct Answers how many species live in planet Earth? - Answer-unknown-roughly 3 to 5 million why is life so incredibly diverse, yet so strangely similar? - Answer-organisms can contain similar features. planes have wings, birds have wings-this feature is useful for different things (different for penguins, pelicans, bats, eagles) true or false: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future? - Answertrue or false: scientists believe in evolution even though they currently lack evidence for the theory - Answer-false true or false: opposition to irrational numbers was based on evidence that such numbers cannot exist - Answer-false true or false: opposition to irrational numbers stemmed from a worldview involving naturalistic evolution - Answer-false true or false: the belief that irrational numbers cannot exist reflects religion more than science - Answer-true true or false: modern mathematicians accept irrational numbers because such numbers provide more accurate solutions to problems than whole numbers do - Answer-true the scientific method relies on.... - Answer-models, observations, and experiments a model is a formal description of a scientific hypothesis. which provides the most precise description of a hypothesis? - Answertrue or false: an experiment enables one to demonstrate that a correlation between two variables results from cause and effect - Answer-true