BIOL 1500 Exam 1 UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Define Biology - CORRECT ANSWER - Study of life
Define Science - CORRECT ANSWER - Derived from "scientists", means knowledge
Define Discovery Science - CORRECT ANSWER - Aka qualitative science, aims to
observe, explore, and discover
Define Hypothesis-based science - CORRECT ANSWER - Aka quantitative science,
begins with specific question or problem, and an answer/solution to test
Define scientific method - CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Goes from general to specific
information
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 -
CORRECT ANSWER - Deductive reasoning
Can a new hypothesis be proposed? Why? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Inductive
Define Inductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Inductive reasoning
Define basic science - CORRECT ANSWER - "Pure" science seeks to expand knowledge
regardless of the short term application of knowledge
Define applied science - CORRECT ANSWER - "Technology" science aims to use science
to solve real world problems
What are the properties of life? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Atoms->Molecules-> macromolecules->organelles->cells-<tissues->organs-> organ systems->
organisms/populations/communities->ecosystems-> Biosphere
Population means - CORRECT ANSWER - All same organisms in same area
Communities mean - CORRECT ANSWER - All of living things in a region/ different
species in same area
Ecosystems involve - CORRECT ANSWER - Living and non living things
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Define Biology - CORRECT ANSWER - Study of life
Define Science - CORRECT ANSWER - Derived from "scientists", means knowledge
Define Discovery Science - CORRECT ANSWER - Aka qualitative science, aims to
observe, explore, and discover
Define Hypothesis-based science - CORRECT ANSWER - Aka quantitative science,
begins with specific question or problem, and an answer/solution to test
Define scientific method - CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Goes from general to specific
information
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 -
CORRECT ANSWER - Deductive reasoning
Can a new hypothesis be proposed? Why? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Inductive
Define Inductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Inductive reasoning
Define basic science - CORRECT ANSWER - "Pure" science seeks to expand knowledge
regardless of the short term application of knowledge
Define applied science - CORRECT ANSWER - "Technology" science aims to use science
to solve real world problems
What are the properties of life? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Atoms->Molecules-> macromolecules->organelles->cells-<tissues->organs-> organ systems->
organisms/populations/communities->ecosystems-> Biosphere
Population means - CORRECT ANSWER - All same organisms in same area
Communities mean - CORRECT ANSWER - All of living things in a region/ different
species in same area
Ecosystems involve - CORRECT ANSWER - Living and non living things
