UB Bio 200 exam 1
Science - answer An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the
natural world.
scientific method= hypothetico-deductive method - answer a way of discovering facts
and principles: where questions are posed, hypotheses are suggested, predictions and
tests are made to determine if the hypothesis would appear correct.
hypothesis - answeran educated guess. ex) if a strain of yeast is non-filamentous, it will
not grow as large as a wild type yeast.
scietific theory - answer Is supported by significant and large amount of experimental
evidence and scientific reasoning
Law of Parsimony (Occam's Razor) - answerSuggests that we should keep theories
simpler unless there's a good reason to make them more complex
consilience - answerthe unity of knowledge. Used to describe a scientific theory that has
multiple lines of evidence to support it
John Watson and Francis Crick - answercredited with the discovery that DNA was a
double helix shape
Rosalind Franklin - answerUsed X-ray diffraction to discover the double-helical structure
of DNA.
deductive reasoning - answergeneral to specific
inductuve reasoning - answerspecific to general
Science is self-correcting - answerBad results and ideas will eventually be rejected or
corrected
devine creation hypotheis - answerThe Roman Catholic viewpoint that God created
everything by Miracle
Evolution Hypothesis - answerorganisms Change Through time, survival of the fittest
acquired characteristics - answerCharacteristics of an organism gained during its
lifetime
Science - answer An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the
natural world.
scientific method= hypothetico-deductive method - answer a way of discovering facts
and principles: where questions are posed, hypotheses are suggested, predictions and
tests are made to determine if the hypothesis would appear correct.
hypothesis - answeran educated guess. ex) if a strain of yeast is non-filamentous, it will
not grow as large as a wild type yeast.
scietific theory - answer Is supported by significant and large amount of experimental
evidence and scientific reasoning
Law of Parsimony (Occam's Razor) - answerSuggests that we should keep theories
simpler unless there's a good reason to make them more complex
consilience - answerthe unity of knowledge. Used to describe a scientific theory that has
multiple lines of evidence to support it
John Watson and Francis Crick - answercredited with the discovery that DNA was a
double helix shape
Rosalind Franklin - answerUsed X-ray diffraction to discover the double-helical structure
of DNA.
deductive reasoning - answergeneral to specific
inductuve reasoning - answerspecific to general
Science is self-correcting - answerBad results and ideas will eventually be rejected or
corrected
devine creation hypotheis - answerThe Roman Catholic viewpoint that God created
everything by Miracle
Evolution Hypothesis - answerorganisms Change Through time, survival of the fittest
acquired characteristics - answerCharacteristics of an organism gained during its
lifetime
