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| What is the current estimated number of species on the Earth? (HW) |
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| 10 million to 100 million |
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| Suppose you spent one hour studying each species on Earth. If there are 10 million and you studied 8 hours every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, how long would it take you to complete the course? (HW - do the calculations.) |
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| What is a simple, but useful definition of anatomy? (HW) |
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| The study of biological structure |
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| What is the science of relating and interpreting observed biological structures? (HW) |
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| What is physiology? Write a definition from a glossary or dictionary. (HW) |
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| The study of the physical and chemical processes involved in the functioning of living organisms and their component parts. |
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| What is a simple, but useful definition of physiology? (HW) |
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| The study of biological function or the study of lifeís processes. |
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| What is biology? Write a definition from a dictionary or glossary. (HW) |
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| A specialty within science that deals with living organisms and vital processes. |
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| What is a simple, but useful definition of biology? (HW) |
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| The scientific study of life. |
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| How do anatomy and physiology relate to biology? (HW) |
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| Anatomy & physiology are specialties within biology. |
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| What are three important attributes of the scientific method? (HW) |
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| 1) Confidence that the natural world is ultimately explainable in terms we can understand. 2) Descriptions and explanations of the natural world are honestly based on observations and could be modified or refuted by other investigators. 3) |
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| A short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident. |
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| Is anecdotal evidence useless? (HW) |
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| No. It may be used to form an hypothesis. |
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| What are the two general types of knowledge within the base of knowledge of science? |
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| A tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences. It implies insufficient evidence to provide more than a tentative explanation and therefore needs to be tested. |
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| What is the key characteristic of an hypothesis used in the scientific method? |
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| What is the key characteristic of the data collected for use in the scientific method? |
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| In what type of publication are scientific findings communicated within science? |
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| Science is a way of knowing. What is it limited to? |
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| Other than science, what are other ways of knowing? |
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| Religon, ethics, theology |
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| Based on the scientific method, what are some important characteristics of the type of information that would be best to use in evaluating issues related to science? |
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| peer review journals, medical books |
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