Scientific Method
The word science translates into what in Greek?
Knowledge
Is based on our ability to “edit” and rewrite the genetic code. We may soon learn to correct or replace damaged genes that cause inherited disease or genetically engineer bacteria to clean up toxic waste.
It raises enormous ethical, legal and social questions.
What is Biotechnology.
Biology is the science that employs the scientific methodology to study ______ _____.
What is living things
May look at a salt marsh and immediately ask, “What’s that plant? Why is it growing here?”
Scientists share their findings with the scientific community by publishing articles that have undergone this.
What is Peer-Review.
This type of data are numbers obtained by counting or measuring.
What is Quantitative Data.
This studies signs of ancient life —fossilized dinosaur bones.
In addition to identifying and cataloging all these life forms, biologist aim to combine the latest genetic information with computer technology to organize all living things into a single universal “Tree of All Life”— and put the results on the Web in a form that anyone can access.
What is a Paleontologist.
What is genetic code.
Scientists question existing ideas and hypotheses, and they refuse to accept explanations without evidence.
What is Skepticism.
Is a particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific. Science aims to be objective, but scientists are human, too. Sometimes scientific data can be misinterpreted or misapplied by scientists who want to prove a particular point.
What is bias.
**Daily Double**
These tools were used in the Bubble Gum Lab experiment.
What are two types of gum, string, a meter stick, and wax paper.
These fields focus on the study of DNA and other molecules inside the cell.
Genomics and Molecular Biology.
Most plants and animals engage in _________ ________.
What is sexual reproduction.
Scientists are willing to accept different ideas that may not agree with their hypothesis.
What is Open-mindedness.
People living on a strip of land along a coast may face flooding; this is an example of
What is a Practical Problem.
Whenever possible, the hypothesis should be tested by an experiment in which only one variable has changed. All other variables must be kept unchanged. This type of experiment is known as a
What is a Controlled Experiment.
Life on Earth is shaped by weather patterns and processes in the atmosphere that we are just beginning to understand.
Activities of living organisms —including humans— profoundly affects both the atmosphere and climate.
What is Global Ecology
The combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials is called ____________.
What is metabolism.
Researchers need to think this way so that they can design experiments that yield accurate data.
What is Creativity.
In science, this applies to a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations and hypotheses and that enables scientists to make accurate predictions about new situations.
What is Theory.
What are the steps of the scientific method in order?
Observe and record
Share your results
Do the experiment
Ask a question
Form a hypothesis
Draw conclusions
Ask a question
Form a hypothesis
Do the experiment
Observe and record
Draw conclusions
Share your results
The relationships between host and pathogens are constantly changing. Organisms that cause human disease have their own ecology, which involves our bodies, medicines we take, and our interactions with each other and the environment.
What is Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease.
There are many big ideas in Biology, name four:
What are:
the cellular basis of life;
information and heredity;
matter and energy;
growth and development, and reproduction;
homeostasis;
evolution;
structure and function;
unity and diversity of life;
interdependence in nature;
and science as a way of knowing.
These four Attitudes that help Scientists generate new ideas.
What are Open-mindedness, Skepticism, Curiosity and Creativity.
Pure science does not include ________ or ________ viewpoints.
What are ethical and moral viewpoints.