BIOS 195 Test 1 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Questions & Answers with rationales

SUBSCRIBE BIOS 195 Exam 1 1. are composed of cells –Answer properties of life 2. are complex and ordered –Answer properties of life 3. respond to their environment –Answer properties of life 4. can grow and reproduce –Answer properties of life 5. obtain and use energy –Answer properties of life 6. maintain internal balance –Answer properties of life 7. allow for evolutionary adaptation –Answer properties of life 8. emergent properties –Answer new properties present at one level not seen in the previ - ous level 9. examines the natural world –Answer the nature of science SUBSCRIBE 10. tests natural explanations –Answer the nature of science 11. as objective as humanly possible –Answer the nature of science 12. uses hypothesis -prediction (H-P) method "scientific method" –Answer the nature of science 13. deductive reasoning –Answer uses GENERAL principles to make SPECIFIC predic - tions 14. Inductive reasoning –Answer uses SPECIFIC observations to make GENERAL conclu - sions 15. scientific method –Answer Observations & "why question" formulations -->Hypothesis formation - hypotheses are tentative answers to "why questions" --->Prediction - If this hypothesis is true, then this should happen ---->Experimentation (or comparative / observational study) --->Conclusion 16. experiment –Answer tests the hypothesis, must be carefully designed to test only one variable at a time, consists of a simultaneous test experiment (treatment) and a control experiment (control) 17. Null hypothesis –Answer hypothesis of no difference, eg, no difference between the control and experimental treatments, and many studies fail to reject the null hypoth - esis