BIOL 115- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 164 pages long!)
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We are born not knowing sounds and we learn to produce them through exposure by other adults. Other species that do this are songbirds, dolphins, whales, etc. Woolley"s research focuses on vocal learning in songbirds. Scientific method: make observations, form a question (testable, propose a hypothesis (testable, falsifiable, test your hypothesis, experimental manipulation, assess, reject or accept all or part of the hypothesis, start over again at number 1. So scientific method is kind of a loop. A testable question is one that will allow you to set up an experiment in order to learn the answer. You can"t just observe to find the answer; you must manipulate some factors. Could be testable, but this question is a little bit too vague to be testable. Also we don"t know what the biggest volcano means (widest, tallest, Easiest way to turn a question into ah hypothesis if using an (cid:498)if, then, because(cid:499) statement.
