Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
BISC 120 Questions and Correct Verified
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Steps of the scientific method
✓ 1. Observation
✓ 2. Hypothesis
✓ 3. Experimentation
✓ 4. Theory
✓ 5. Law of Nature
Scientific Method
✓ How scientists gain knowledge
Science
✓ Has data
Pseudo Science
✓ No data.
✓ Ex. Holistic medicine
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Oberservation
✓ Noticing something, not manipulating. Questions
Hypothesis
✓ A tentative educated guess. Has to be testable and can be proven false, or
confirmed. Not fact
Experimentation
✓ The process of conducting controlled scientific tests. With positive and negative
controls
Positive Control
✓ You know it should work in experimentation
Negative Control
✓ You know it should not work in experimentation
Theory
✓ a description based on a preponderance of evidence, fully tested
Law of Nature
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✓ an overarching statement of how the universe works
Hypothesis testing
✓ Based on inductive and deductive reasoning
Inductive reasoning
✓ specific concept, gain knowledge, then gets to a larger/broader idea
Deductive reasoning
✓ starting top to bottom. funnel down information. general to specific.
Variable
✓ need to be clearly defined, measurable, and controllable
independent variable
✓ variable conditions whose effect is studied. Doesn't change
dependent variable
✓ what is being measured in the experiment in response to independent variable
conditions. Changes
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BISC 120 Questions and Correct Verified
Answers Highly Recommended Version
For 2024-2025 Already A Graded|New
and Revised!!!
Steps of the scientific method
✓ 1. Observation
✓ 2. Hypothesis
✓ 3. Experimentation
✓ 4. Theory
✓ 5. Law of Nature
Scientific Method
✓ How scientists gain knowledge
Science
✓ Has data
Pseudo Science
✓ No data.
✓ Ex. Holistic medicine
Top Mark !!!
11
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Oberservation
✓ Noticing something, not manipulating. Questions
Hypothesis
✓ A tentative educated guess. Has to be testable and can be proven false, or
confirmed. Not fact
Experimentation
✓ The process of conducting controlled scientific tests. With positive and negative
controls
Positive Control
✓ You know it should work in experimentation
Negative Control
✓ You know it should not work in experimentation
Theory
✓ a description based on a preponderance of evidence, fully tested
Law of Nature
Top Mark !!!
22
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ an overarching statement of how the universe works
Hypothesis testing
✓ Based on inductive and deductive reasoning
Inductive reasoning
✓ specific concept, gain knowledge, then gets to a larger/broader idea
Deductive reasoning
✓ starting top to bottom. funnel down information. general to specific.
Variable
✓ need to be clearly defined, measurable, and controllable
independent variable
✓ variable conditions whose effect is studied. Doesn't change
dependent variable
✓ what is being measured in the experiment in response to independent variable
conditions. Changes
Top Mark !!!
33
