BIOL 1117 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate, Covalent Bond, Dehydration Reaction
15 Mar 2016
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Making numerous observaions unil one becomes conident in drawing generalizaions from them knowledge of anatomy obtained by this method. Characterisics of a good hypothesis consistent with what is already known testable and possibly falsiiable with evidence. Most physiological knowledge gained by the hypotheico-deducive method. Falsiiability: if we claim something is scieniically true, we must be able to specify what evidence it would take to prove it wrong. Mixing ie genders: confounding use of placebo in control group helps to eliminate psychosomaic efects of treatment diferences. Scieniic fact informaion that can be independently veriied by a trained person. Law of nature generalizaion about how mater and energy behave results from inducive reasoning and repeated observaions: writen as verbal statements or mathemaical formulae ie: complementary dna pairs, boyle"s law. Evoluion an explanatory statement or set of statements derived from facts, laws, and conirmed hypotheses. Cell theory, luid mosaic theory of cell membranes, sliding ilament theory of muscle contracion.
