BIOL 1201 : Exam 1
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10/6/2014 3:39:00 pm: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, What is science: understanding the natural world, study of how the world works, understanding and application, process. Scientists: make observations, discern patterns, assume future is like past, come up with models of natural world only models, we can"t predict future, all models are changing, if we understand today, we can predict tomorrow. Hypothesis test : what happens as a result of this process, change model, improve, terminology, hypothesis-prediction or explanation for a phenomenon that is untested, theory-same explanation, tested many times, supported, we. Think they"re pretty accurate: law-theory that is continually tested. What determines solubility: like dissolves like, like in terms of polarity, polar solutes dissolve in polar solvents, non-polar solutes dissolve in non-polar solvents. What determines polarity: atom, smallest unit of matter separable by normal chemical means, smallest unit of matter that retains all of the properties of that element.
