BIOL 1020H- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
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Chapter 1: life: chemical, cellular, and evolutionary foundations. Experimentation: asking and answering questions about the world in an unbiased manner. Variable: a change that is introduced to the experiment that will potentially affect the results of the experiment. Test group: experimental group that is exposed to the variable in an experiment. Control group: the standard that will be used to compare. Scientific method: a way of to answer and ask questions of the unknown. Theory: a general explanation of the world using observations and additional information to support the explanation. Summary: a way to ask questions about the unknown and predicting the outcome. Theory is only established only if the results of the experiment, after multiple attempts, satisfy the hypothesis: using sets of observations and data collected, a theory will be produced to prove the hypothesis. First law of thermodynamics: energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. Life works according to the fundamentals of chemistry and physics.
