BIO152H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Insulin Resistance, Nonsense Mutation, Chemical Polarity
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Seeks natural causes for natural phenomenon (observe something in nature and come up with natural causes) Involves the use of the scientific method: asking questions, making observations, developing explanatory hypotheses, and testing those hypotheses. Sometimes called self-correcting, meaning that errors that may occur are usually discovered within the scientific community. Scientific communication (whether spoken or written) is essential to science. Science cannot answer all questions; it is limited to organisms and processes that can be measured and observed. Biology is a science in which carefully designed experiments are an important tool for hypothesis testing. The e(cid:374)d (cid:396)esult that (cid:455)ou o(cid:271)se(cid:396)(cid:448)e is the depe(cid:374)da(cid:374)t (cid:448)a(cid:396)ia(cid:271)le"s (cid:396)esult of (cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulatio(cid:374) of a(cid:374) i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t (cid:448)a(cid:396)ia(cid:271)le. Inductive reasoning: derive a generalization from many specific observations. Are contrived experiments that make use of the scientific method. Deductive reasoning: goi(cid:374)g f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al to the (cid:373)o(cid:396)e spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) takes the fo(cid:396)(cid:373) of (cid:862)if(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)the(cid:374)(cid:863) logi(cid:272)
