Chapter 1 Flashcards
Describe the steps of the scientific method.
- Make observations
- Ask questions
- Explore other sources of information
- Form a hypothesis
- Test the hypothesis
- Find agreement with existing scientific laws and theories to construct new laws
- Form a conclusion and communicate it
Contrast the features of science and nonscience areas of study.
Science is concerned with facts and laws.
Nonscience is concerned with religion and history.
Describe 5 characteristics that distinguish living organisms from nonliving objects.
- Unique structured organizations
- Metabolic processes
- Generative processes
- Responsive processes
- Control processes
Positive and negative effects of biological principals.
Positive: Food production & disease control.
Negative: Inability to see the bigger picture & ethical concerns.
Name two areas of study that will be important in biological studies in the near future.
Ecology & Relationship between heredity and disease.
Biology
The study of living things and how living entities interact with things around them.
Science
Process used to solve problems or develop and understanding of natural events.
Pseudoscience
An activity that uses the appearance or language of science to convince or mislead people into thinking that something has scientific validity.
Knowledge gained through experimentation or observation.
Empirical evidence
Re-creation of an event that enables a scientist to gain valid and reliable empirical evidence.
Experiment
Possible answer or explanation for a question that accounts for all the observed facts that is testable.
Hypothesis
The total of all the chemical reactions and energy changes that take place in an organism.
Metabolism
Trustworthy conclusions from multiple experiment.
Reliable
A way of gaining facts about the world that involves observation, hypothesis formation testing of hypothesis, theory formation and law formation.
Scientific method
Able to be justified; on target.
Valid
