BSC 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Plant, General Idea, Persea
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Bio - chapter 1 page 1 individual - squirrel or fox or oak tree population - group of individuals community - different populations in the same area ecosystem - communities plus the environment biosphere how living things are alike. 3. archaea - kingdom archaebacteria bacteria - kingdom eubacteria eukarya - four kingdoms. 4. kingdom protista - algae, amoeba, autotrophs, heterotrophs. Hypothesis / hypotheses: a possible explanation(s) of a specific phenomenon. Prediction: a claim about what can be expected in nature, based on the premises of a theory or hypothesis. Deductive reasoning: using a general idea to make a conclusion about a specific case. Test: an attempt to produce actual observations that match predicted or expected observations. Report: a statement about whether a theory or hypothesis should be accepted, modified, or rejected, based on tests of predictions derived from it. Molecular biology: structure and function of biological macromolecules. Cell biology: study of cell structure and function.
