BIO 140 Study Guide - Final Guide: Falsifiability, Species Richness, Base Pair
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Process of science: exploration and discovery- making observations, asking questions, sharing data and ideas, finding inspiration, exploring the literature, testing ideas, gathering data- hypothesis, expected results/ observations, actual b. results/ observations. Independent variable- is manipulated in the treatment group. Dependent variable- does depend on variation of the independent variable. Control- does not undergo manipulation, allows us to determine whether changes we see in the treatment are due to the iv. Treatment- what is being manipulated (take vitamin c) Hypothesis- must be testable, explains a set of observations, usually in terms of being falsifiable (potential to be shown as false) Prediction- logical outcomes of the hypotheses that describe what we expect to see under a given set of circumstances if the hypothesis is determined: experimental- the researcher manipulates the iv and measures the response of the dv. Non-experimental- the researcher is testing a hypothesis but does not manipulate any variable: causation- the idea that one variable causes or influences another.
