Chapter 1- The Science Of Biology

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Science

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Organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world

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Goal of science

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The goal of science is to investigate and understand the natural world, to explain events in the natural world, and to use those explanations to make useful predictions.

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Observation

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Process of gathering information about events or processes in a careful, orderly way

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Data

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The information gathered from observations

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Inference

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Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge or experience

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Hypothesis

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Proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations

• educated guess with some substance
• must be proposed in a way that enables them to be tested

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Spontaneous generation

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Life arising from nonliving matter

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Controlled experiment

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One variable is changed at a time

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Manipulated variable

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Variable that is deliberately changed

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Responding variable

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Variable that is observed and that changes in response to the manipulated variable

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Theory

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Well supported hypothesis (applies to a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations)

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Biology

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Science that employs the scientific method to study living things

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Characteristics of living things

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Should have right

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Starts from an atom…

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Continue

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Biology

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Science that employs the scientific method to study living things

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What is science and what can it do?

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Science studies the natural world and it can provide us with answers to the questions we have about nature and its connections to society

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What science is(in terms of what it can do)

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Investigate and understand nature
Gather evidence based on observations
Five senses
Collect data

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What else is science

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Discovery

Problem solving in terms of science

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What is science not

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Morals, technology, religion

Cannot provide answers to questions that have no answer (pseudoscience)

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Two types of data

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Qualitative and quantitative

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Scientific theory

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Hypothesis has tons of support and has not been disproved

Truth until proven untrue

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Biogenesis

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Life coming from life

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Variables

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Factors in an experiment that can change

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Homeostasis

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Organism keeping conditions inside their bodies as constant as possible
-stable internal balance