BIO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Autopoiesis, Discovery Science, Eukaryote
Document Summary
Science is an approach to understanding the natural world that is based on inquiry - a search for information, explanations, and answers to speci c questions. Discovery science, which is mostly about describing nature recorded observations are called data. These are items of information on which scienti c inquiry is based the scienti c method is a formal process of inquiry that consists of a series of steps that provide a loose guideline for scienti c investigations. Hypothesis-driven science, which is mostly about explaining nature. A hypothesis tentative answer to a question - a proposed explanation for a set of observations a good hypothesis immediately leads to predictions that can be tested by experiments. Accumulating facts is not the primary goal of science. Theories are a widely accepted explanatory idea that is broader in scope than a hypothesis, generates new hypotheses, and is supported by a large body of evidence.
