Biological Science BSC-1005 Midterm || All Answers Are Correct 100%.

The proposed explanation for a phenomenon is BEST described as: A. a hypothesis. B. a conclusion. C. an observation. D. an experiment. E. a testable prediction. correct answers A. a hypothesis. Statistical methods make it possible to: A. prove any hypothesis is true. B. reject any hypothesis. C. unambiguously learn the truth. D. determine how likely it is that certain results may have occurred by chance. E. test non-falsifiable hypotheses. correct answers D. determine how likely it is that certain results may have occurred by chance. A relationship that has been established based on a large amount of observational and experimental data is: A. a fact. B. an assumption. C. a conjecture. D. a theory. E. a hypothesis. correct answers D. a theory. By 1796 it had been observed that milk maids who had been exposed to cowpox did not succumb to the deadly plague of smallpox that was ravishing both Europe and Britain. From this observation, Edward Jenner was able to construct the world's first successful vaccine. Which of the following statements best fits Jenner's hypothesis that led him to his creation of the vaccine?