Bio 121 Exam 1 Miami OH 110 questions with complete solution graded A+

What is the environment? - all of the living things and nonliving things around us What is science? - a systematic process for learning about the world and testing our understanding about it observation, questioning, testing, discovering What is hypothesis driven science? - structured research, experiment tested using scientific method What is observational/descriptive science? - info gathered about organisms, materials, systems, or processes not well known. NO EXPERIMENTS. Steps of the scientific method - -OBSERVATION -QUESTIONS -HYPOTHESIS -PREDICTION -TEST -EXPERIMENT -ANALYZE Independent Variable - variable scientist manipulates in experiment Dependent Variable - depends on/affected by the manipulation of the independent variable in the experiment Representative data - not biased or selected, random sample data Manipulated Experiments - experiments where the independent variable is manipulated