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Define Biology - ✔✔Study of life
Define Science - ✔✔Derived from "scientists", means knowledge
Define Discovery Science - ✔✔Aka qualitative science, aims to observe, explore, and
discover
Define Hypothesis-based science - ✔✔Aka quantitative science, begins with specific
question or problem, and an answer/solution to test
Define scientific method - ✔✔A method of research with defined steps that include
experiments and careful observations. Hypothesis has to be able to be tested.
Hypothesis may become a theory
What are the steps of the scientific method? - ✔✔Observation, Question, hypothesis that
answers a question, Prediction based on the hypothesis, Do an experiment to test the
prediction, Analyze the results
Define Deductive reasoning - ✔✔Goes from general to specific information
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,A form of logical thinking that uses a general principle or law to forecast specific
results.
All dogs have ears, so golden retrievers must have ears is an example of what science
reasoning - ✔✔Deductive reasoning
Can a new hypothesis be proposed? Why? - ✔✔Yes, if the first hypothesis was not
supported by the experimental data, you can create a new hypothesis to be tested.
Hypothesis must be approved or disapproved
You notice that every time you eat spicy food, you get a stomachache, so you conclude
that spicy food causes stomach aches - ✔✔Inductive
Define Inductive reasoning - ✔✔A form of logical thinking that uses related
observations to arrive at a general conduction
Specific information—> general information
Neurologist taking many pics of human brain and looking at stimulations responding
to food to find a common place that is stimulated in multiple brains is an example of
what science reasoning - ✔✔Inductive reasoning
Define basic science - ✔✔"Pure" science seeks to expand knowledge regardless of the
short term application of knowledge
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, Define applied science - ✔✔"Technology" science aims to use science to solve real world
problems
What are the properties of life? - ✔✔order, regulation, growth and development, energy
processing, response to the environment stimuli, reproduction, evolution
What are the levels of organization that make up living things? - ✔✔Atoms->Molecules-
> macromolecules->organelles->cells-<tissues->organs-> organ systems->
organisms/populations/communities->ecosystems-> Biosphere
Population means - ✔✔All same organisms in same area
Communities mean - ✔✔All of living things in a region/ different species in same area
Ecosystems involve - ✔✔Living and non living things
The biosphere is made up of - ✔✔All ecosystems
What is the format for an experiment paper? - ✔✔Abstract, introduction, methods,
results, discussion, and literature citations
What are the 3 domains of life? - ✔✔Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya
Define bacteria and give example - ✔✔Bacteria is a prokaryotes,single cell lacking
intracellular organelles, example is Cyanobacteria
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Define Biology - ✔✔Study of life
Define Science - ✔✔Derived from "scientists", means knowledge
Define Discovery Science - ✔✔Aka qualitative science, aims to observe, explore, and
discover
Define Hypothesis-based science - ✔✔Aka quantitative science, begins with specific
question or problem, and an answer/solution to test
Define scientific method - ✔✔A method of research with defined steps that include
experiments and careful observations. Hypothesis has to be able to be tested.
Hypothesis may become a theory
What are the steps of the scientific method? - ✔✔Observation, Question, hypothesis that
answers a question, Prediction based on the hypothesis, Do an experiment to test the
prediction, Analyze the results
Define Deductive reasoning - ✔✔Goes from general to specific information
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,A form of logical thinking that uses a general principle or law to forecast specific
results.
All dogs have ears, so golden retrievers must have ears is an example of what science
reasoning - ✔✔Deductive reasoning
Can a new hypothesis be proposed? Why? - ✔✔Yes, if the first hypothesis was not
supported by the experimental data, you can create a new hypothesis to be tested.
Hypothesis must be approved or disapproved
You notice that every time you eat spicy food, you get a stomachache, so you conclude
that spicy food causes stomach aches - ✔✔Inductive
Define Inductive reasoning - ✔✔A form of logical thinking that uses related
observations to arrive at a general conduction
Specific information—> general information
Neurologist taking many pics of human brain and looking at stimulations responding
to food to find a common place that is stimulated in multiple brains is an example of
what science reasoning - ✔✔Inductive reasoning
Define basic science - ✔✔"Pure" science seeks to expand knowledge regardless of the
short term application of knowledge
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, Define applied science - ✔✔"Technology" science aims to use science to solve real world
problems
What are the properties of life? - ✔✔order, regulation, growth and development, energy
processing, response to the environment stimuli, reproduction, evolution
What are the levels of organization that make up living things? - ✔✔Atoms->Molecules-
> macromolecules->organelles->cells-<tissues->organs-> organ systems->
organisms/populations/communities->ecosystems-> Biosphere
Population means - ✔✔All same organisms in same area
Communities mean - ✔✔All of living things in a region/ different species in same area
Ecosystems involve - ✔✔Living and non living things
The biosphere is made up of - ✔✔All ecosystems
What is the format for an experiment paper? - ✔✔Abstract, introduction, methods,
results, discussion, and literature citations
What are the 3 domains of life? - ✔✔Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya
Define bacteria and give example - ✔✔Bacteria is a prokaryotes,single cell lacking
intracellular organelles, example is Cyanobacteria
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