Midterm Topics: The Study of Biology

Question 1

What is encompassed in the study of biology?

Answer 1

The study of life/living organisms

Question 2

What are materialism and empircism?

Answer 2

• Materialism: Know to be true, things we can touch
• Empiricism: Tells us we make conclusions on things we touch, feel and see

Question 3

What is fundamental and applied science?

Answer 3

• Fundamental: Basic; discovery of new knowledge, facts and phenomena
• Applied: Application of scientific knowledge to solve problems

Question 4

How are scientific experiments reported? How are they published?

Answer 4

• They conduct the experiment and then it goes though lots of peer reviews then becomes published if it is good enough
• This is typically done by old white men