Chapter 1 pt 2 Flashcards
what was the Scopes Monkey trial
trial in the 1900’s, Scopes was charged for teaching evolution, and even though it was admitted that the Bible should not be taken literally (the creation section) Scopes was fired and charged anyway
there has been a long battle of people trying to teach evolution and getting in trouble for it
what is observation—
the gathering of scientific information by watching a phenomenon
what is deduction—
a conclusion that follows logically from a set of observations
what is hypothesis—
a preliminary explanation of a phenomenon, hypothesis information is the first step of the scientific method
what is experimentation—
the testing of a hypothesis
what is data—
the scientific evidence produced by an experiment or by observation, from which scientific conclusions are made
what is scientific method—
scientific research procedure in which a hypothesis is states, data are collected to test it, and a hypothesis is either supported or refuted
what is falsifiable—
the ability to be proven false (a hypothesis must be falsifiable)
what is paradigm—
a conceptual framework useful for understanding a body of evidence
what did aristotle believe
believed each living thing possessed an absolutely fixed essence that could not be altered and that here was a hierarchy that all life was organized onto (humans at the top)
immutability— stasis, lack of change
during the Renaissance, 3 major developments made way for the establishment of an academic discipline devoted to a scientific understanding of the human condition:
- the great artists f the Renaissance— showed the body more accurately than that of the Middle Ages
- exploration of the new world — discoveries of greater amounts of nature (biological and cultural)
polygenism— ancient belief that people are derived from multiple creations
people who thought like this were imprisoned or even killed during this time
monogenism— ancient belief that all people are derived from a single creation - scientific revolution
what is taxonomy—
the science of biological classification
what is binomial nomenclature—
linnaean naming system for all organisms, consisting of a genus and species label
who came up with the classification system
linnaeus
what is taxon—
a group of organisms assigned to a particular category