BIOL 1113- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 54 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Foundations: tree of life (web resource, ernst heckel, darwin also scribbled trees on notes organisms originating from bacteria. What is science: the study of living and non-living things, science is everything, american heritage dictionary definition, carl sagan definition, a way of discovering the nature of the universe around you (rawle et al. Faith: science beliefs open to challenge, facts given, faith given set of beliefs and not open to challenge, facts given irrelevant. Scientific method: natural history a collection of observations, a starting point of doing more interesting phases of science. If yes, generality? (looking at successes, bills, etc) If no, new hypothesis for what the data collected is showing. Nothing is proven in science a new observation could come along and challenge. 100s of years in science (data supports, not proves) You cannot disprove a hypothesis failed to support hypothesis. Data: these data were, these results support the hypothesis.
