BIO 200 EXAM 1 VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
science - Answers - An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the
natural world.
scientific method= hypothetico-deductive method - Answers - 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 - Answers - an educated guess. ex) if a strain of yeast is non-filamentous, it
will not grow as large as a wild type yeast.
scietific theory - Answers - Is supported by significant and large amount of experimental
evidence and scientific reasoning
Law of Parsimony (Occam's Razor) - Answers - Suggests that we should keep theories
simpler unless there's a good reason to make them more complex
consilience - Answers - the unity of knowledge. Used to describe a scientific theory that
has multiple lines of evidence to support it
John Watson and Francis Crick - Answers - credited with the discovery that DNA was a
double helix shape
Rosalind Franklin - Answers - Used X-ray diffraction to discover the double-helical
structure of DNA.
deductive reasoning - Answers - general to specific
inductuve reasoning - Answers - specific to general
Science is self-correcting - Answers - Bad results and ideas will eventually be rejected
or corrected
devine creation hypotheis - Answers - The Roman Catholic viewpoint that God created
everything by Miracle
Evolution Hypothesis - Answers - organisms Change Through time, survival of the fittest
acquired characteristics - Answers - Characteristics of an organism gained during its
lifetime
natural selection - Answers - A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms
best adapted to the environment.
science - Answers - An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the
natural world.
scientific method= hypothetico-deductive method - Answers - 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 - Answers - an educated guess. ex) if a strain of yeast is non-filamentous, it
will not grow as large as a wild type yeast.
scietific theory - Answers - Is supported by significant and large amount of experimental
evidence and scientific reasoning
Law of Parsimony (Occam's Razor) - Answers - Suggests that we should keep theories
simpler unless there's a good reason to make them more complex
consilience - Answers - the unity of knowledge. Used to describe a scientific theory that
has multiple lines of evidence to support it
John Watson and Francis Crick - Answers - credited with the discovery that DNA was a
double helix shape
Rosalind Franklin - Answers - Used X-ray diffraction to discover the double-helical
structure of DNA.
deductive reasoning - Answers - general to specific
inductuve reasoning - Answers - specific to general
Science is self-correcting - Answers - Bad results and ideas will eventually be rejected
or corrected
devine creation hypotheis - Answers - The Roman Catholic viewpoint that God created
everything by Miracle
Evolution Hypothesis - Answers - organisms Change Through time, survival of the fittest
acquired characteristics - Answers - Characteristics of an organism gained during its
lifetime
natural selection - Answers - A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms
best adapted to the environment.
