BIOL 1002 Chapter : Chapter 1 Notes
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Hypothesis- bad educated guess; ex: bad bacteria don"t like mold good plausible explanation for a pattern: should test the hypothesis; Replication- should be able to replicate, someone else should be able to replicate: vaccines & autism (hot issue) Conclusions- logical interpretation, conclusions, justified based on the results; publish or perish; *can never be sure all untested variables are controlled; *results need to be communicated thoroughly and accurately. Variations & patterns biology is inherently variable; function of complexity, patterns exist statistics deal with this. Germ theory, mrsa; impact of climate change; human population. Why does biology matter? growth; environmental concerns; evolution; education; science of life. Living things are more than the sum of their parts difficult to define: structure is complex of living things *flow chart/graph, organisms sense & respond to internal & external environment, acquire materials & energy from environment. Stimuli- plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals respond to it; ex: sound.
