BIOL 115- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 51 pages long!)
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2. form a testable question: will allow you to set up an experiment to learn the answer, measurable, propose a hypothesis (testable, falsifiable) 4: assess, reject or accept all or part of the hypothesis, start all over again at step 1 test the hypothesis (experimental manipulation) Correlations: do not imply causation, correlations help point out what to test, just cannot assume they are causal. Sampling and sample size: representative of population, large. Validity: internal: study is well-designed and free from biases or confounds, external: can generalize to a larger population based on your data sample. Variance: distance of each point from the mean. Standard deviation: square root of the variance. Biological diversity diversity: variety and differences within and among living species life, growth. 3: adaptation: highly adaptable reproduction: uses hosts functional activity: no (don"t respond to stimuli, don"t have own metabolism domain kingdom phylum class order family genus species.
