BIOL 1201 Chapter : BIOL 1201 Ch 1 2 3
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Course id: biol 1201 bw (mastering biology: weekly practice tests. Bloom"s taxonomy: remembering (1), understanding (2), applying (3), What is science? a body of knowledge an approach to understanding nature. From the national academy of sciences and institute of medicine: the use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena, as well as the knowledge generated through this process. Assume that the future is like the past. Experiment/test > make conclusions which generate more observations: continuous cycle. If you cant make an observation (indirectly or directly) on a phenomenon- you cannot do science a link between technology and science- as technology gets better, more is discovered. Hypotheses are usually narrow in scope; theories have broad explanatory power with multiple sources. Mastering biology online quiz 1 (due friday @ 8am) Hypothesis: best educated guess-narrow phenomenon with a small sort of observations. Theory: developed with a broad sources of evidence that agree on an explanation.