BIO 1300 Study Guide - Common Descent, Null Hypothesis, Scientific Revolution
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Control, a set of individuals that will not be subject to the treatment. Descent with modification, the evolutionary alteration and diversification of ancestral species. Domain, : all life on earth is classified into three domains. Eukaryotes, : the domain that includes all eukaryotes, organisms that contain a membrane- bound nucleus within each of their cells; all protists, plants, fungi, and animals. Extinction, fact, fitness, fossil record, germ theory, historical narrative, Hypothesis, : a working explanation of observed facts. A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation. Induction, : a mechanism in which one group of cells (the inducer cells) causes or influences another nearby group of cells (the responder cells) to follow a particular developmental pathway. Leclerc (george-louis - buffon), a french scientist, was puzzled by the existence of body parts with no apparent fnction.
