BIOL 2400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Genotype Frequency, Genetic Drift, Effective Population Size
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A community of scholars who study the nature of the physical world. A set of methods used to investigate the nature of the physical world. The sum total of human knowledge about the physical world. A series of explanations developed to account for why the world is the way it is. Deduction: inference in which the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises. The hypothetico-deductive method: an approach involving the generation of explicit predictions that can be tested by making new observations. Hypothesis is the general assumption, prediction is what you specifically think will happen in the experiment that will lead to the general assumption. Fact: accepted as true & has been repeatedly confirmed. Theory: well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences & tested hypotheses (explain facts) Law: a descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances.
