LESSON 2 Flashcards

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System of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomenon and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation

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SCIENCE

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Characteristics of Science

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Materialism
Testability
Repeatability
Self-correcting

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: grounded in material causes and cannot violate natural law.

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Materialism

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: forms hypothesis that can and must be tested experimentally against the material world

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Testability

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: results obtained through experimental testing must, for the most part, hold true time and again

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Repeatability

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: If later observations/experiments contradict the former conclusion, the theory must be revised or rejected

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Self-correcting

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How does science works

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Curiosity
Questions
Observation
Hypothesis and Prediction
Experimentation
Conclusion
Communication
Modify or trash

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  • Without it, humankind would not be driven to divine the truths of the universe
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Curiosity

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present problems to be solved

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Questions

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  • Because of prejudice, scientists must strive to separate reality from inference
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Observation

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  • We use information from observation to suggest explanations and answers through hypothesis
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Hypothesis and predictions

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  • Predictions must be tested in controlled experiments
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Experimentation

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  • What does the data mean?
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Conclusion

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  • Publication through academic journals
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Communication

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  • Study of the bodily process
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Physiology

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  • Study of the development of animals from a fertilized egg to birth or hatching
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Embryology

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  • Study of the transmission of inherited traits
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  • Study of the interaction of animals with other animals and with the physical environment
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  • Study of the structure and entire animals and their parts
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  • Study of tissues
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  • Study of cells and the function of cell parts
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  • Study of interaction biology between RNA, DNA, and protein biosynthesis
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  • study of protozoans
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Protozoology

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- branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects.
Entomology
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- branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians.
Herpetology
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- branch of zoology that deals with fishes
Ichthyology
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- the study of mammals,
Mammalogy
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- the scientific study of birds.
Ornithology
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- ranch of biology or medicine concerned with the study of parasitic organisms
Parasitology
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Animal life at all levels struggles to compete for food, water, light, air, mates and everything else
DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
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To maintain its population, individuals must survive and reproduce
DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
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Abundance of species is determined by all the resources and the physical conditions that species requires for its survival
DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
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INTERSPECIES AND INTRASPECIES INTERACTION
symbiosis