BIO 3102 Study Guide - Vitalism, Mental Property, Pharmacology
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Practice of writing history in a story based form. Natural sciences are based upon a historical narrative while physical sciences are based on empirical observation. This is one of the reasons biology has only recently (in the past 70-80 years) been accepted as science on the same level as chemistry of physics. A tentative statement about the natural world leading to deductions that can be tested. If the deductions are verified, the hypothesis is provisionally corroborated. If the deductions are incorrect, the original hypothesis is proven false and must be abandoned or modified. Hypotheses can be used to build more complex inferences and explanations. Ibn al_baitar: wrote a pharmacology of plants, developed a way to purify, strengthen medical ingredients in plants so they could be used for medicine. Mechanism in which one group of cells (inducer cells) causes or influences another nearby group of cells (responder cells) to follow a particular developmental pathway.
