BIO 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wind Tunnel, Phylogenetic Tree, Coronavirus
25 Jan 2017
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5 big ideas discussed in bio 201: nature and practice of science, evolution, information flow, systems, structure & function. Lecture 1: learning objectives: understand the difference between pattern and process, understand several different types of models that are used in scientific research, understand the difference between observation and inference. Which of the following statements is an inference about professor true: he has gray hair, he is wearing glasses, he doesn"t have perfect vision, he is wearing clothes, he is on the stage. Everything that biologists study can be divided into 2 categories: patterns and processes. Occur with regularity (although some patterns may seem random: example: leaf out of deciduous (able to lose leaves) trees in temperate (seasonal) areas every spring. The answers to these questions are processes: causes or mechanisms, we cannot see the process or mechanism, we propose explanations and then use observations, inferences, theories, and models to test our proposed explanations.
