BIOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 WVU
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An intellectual activity, encompassing observation, description, experimentation, and
explanation of natural phenomena - correct answer ✔✔Science
Thinking that relies on testable, rational and repeatable observations - correct answer
✔✔Empirical Knowledge
1. Do background research
2. Make observations
3. Form a hypothesis
4. Devise a testable prediction
5. Conduct critical experiment/collect data
6. Draw conclusions/analyze results
7. Revise hypothesis if needed - correct answer ✔✔Scientific Method
A proposed explanation for phenomenon - correct answer ✔✔Hypothesis
A hypothesis that is exceptionally well-supported by the data and withstood the test time
(broader in scope than hypothesis). When new data is found, theories can be revised - correct
answer ✔✔Theory
1. Sample size
2. Treatment/ Experimental group
, 3. Control group
4. Variable (Independent and Dependent)
5. Blind or double blind strategies
6. Randomization
7. Repeatable - correct answer ✔✔Experimental Design
Any experimental condition applied to individuals - correct answer ✔✔Treatment
A group of individuals who are exposed to a particular treatment - correct answer
✔✔Experimental Group
A group of individuals who are treated identically to the experimental group with the one
exception: they are not exposed to the treatment - correct answer ✔✔Control Group
Characteristics of you experimental system that are subject to change. What you are
measuring/the data you collect - correct answer ✔✔Dependent Variable
The treatment that you are testing in the experiment - correct answer ✔✔Independent Variable
The experimental subjects do not know which treatment (if any) they are receiving - correct
answer ✔✔Blind Strategy
Neither the experimental subjects nor the experimenter knows which treatment the subject is
receiving - correct answer ✔✔Double Blind Strategy
The subjects are randomly assigned into the experimental and control group - correct answer
✔✔Randomized
QUESTIONS & DETAILED CORRECT
ANSWERS UPDATED 100%
An intellectual activity, encompassing observation, description, experimentation, and
explanation of natural phenomena - correct answer ✔✔Science
Thinking that relies on testable, rational and repeatable observations - correct answer
✔✔Empirical Knowledge
1. Do background research
2. Make observations
3. Form a hypothesis
4. Devise a testable prediction
5. Conduct critical experiment/collect data
6. Draw conclusions/analyze results
7. Revise hypothesis if needed - correct answer ✔✔Scientific Method
A proposed explanation for phenomenon - correct answer ✔✔Hypothesis
A hypothesis that is exceptionally well-supported by the data and withstood the test time
(broader in scope than hypothesis). When new data is found, theories can be revised - correct
answer ✔✔Theory
1. Sample size
2. Treatment/ Experimental group
, 3. Control group
4. Variable (Independent and Dependent)
5. Blind or double blind strategies
6. Randomization
7. Repeatable - correct answer ✔✔Experimental Design
Any experimental condition applied to individuals - correct answer ✔✔Treatment
A group of individuals who are exposed to a particular treatment - correct answer
✔✔Experimental Group
A group of individuals who are treated identically to the experimental group with the one
exception: they are not exposed to the treatment - correct answer ✔✔Control Group
Characteristics of you experimental system that are subject to change. What you are
measuring/the data you collect - correct answer ✔✔Dependent Variable
The treatment that you are testing in the experiment - correct answer ✔✔Independent Variable
The experimental subjects do not know which treatment (if any) they are receiving - correct
answer ✔✔Blind Strategy
Neither the experimental subjects nor the experimenter knows which treatment the subject is
receiving - correct answer ✔✔Double Blind Strategy
The subjects are randomly assigned into the experimental and control group - correct answer
✔✔Randomized
