BIOL 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 101 pages long!)
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Observations - observe a problem that requires a solution or explanation. Preliminary experiments - conduct experiments answering a questions about which you are interested. Review - conduct a literature review of the data in the area of study. Hypothesis - formulates the hypothesis into a question that can be verified, an educated guess. Ethical evaluation - submit your complete proposal for ethical review. Experimentation - recruit subjects and conduct experiments to test the hypothesis. Analysis and conclusions - analyze the data from each group using various statistical techniques to see if there are statistical differences between the groups. Accept or reject the hypothesis - due to the results and analysis of the experimentation, the hypothesis is either accepted or rejected. Publication - submit data for publication in peer reviewed journals. Controls - exclude the experimental variables in an experiment. The difference of results between the two groups establishes if the experimental data is valid.
