BIOL 1001 Chapter : Biologychapter1
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1. science is a process in which we understand the world around us; the scientific method. Natural causality is the principle that all events can be traced to natural causes. Natural laws apply to every time and place. Scientific inquiry is based on the assumption that people perceive natural events in similar ways. The belief that events happen through supernatural forces. Assumption that humans perceive natural events in fundamentally the same way. Allows us to accept observations of other humans as reliable. Scientific inquiry is a rigorous method for making observations about natural phenomena. Six steps: observation, question, hypothesis, prediction, experiment or observation, conclusion. The observation, in turn, leads to a question. The question leads to formulation of a hypothesis ,based on previous observations, that is offered as an answer to the question. The hypothesis leads to a prediction, typically expressed in if then language. The prediction is tested by carefully controlled manipulations called experiments.
