Overview-World
The Study of Life
What is Biology
Translated to mean "to know"
What is Science?
The average of a set of data points
What is Mean?
Mechanisms that allow biological processes to self-regulate
What is Feedback?
Focuses on observation and data analysis
What is Discovery Science?
The Process of change that has transformed life on Earth
What is Evolution?
Inquiry
What is the Heart of Science?
The most common number that appears in a set of data
What is Mode?
A group of organisms of the same species living together in an environment.
What is a population?
Uses predictions that can be tested through observation and experimentation.
What is Hypothesis Based Science?
Result from the arrangement and interaction of parts within a system.
What are emergent properties?
Search for information and explanation.
What is Inquiry?
Taking the highest number and subtracting by lowest number in a data set.
Elements arranged in a set ratio
What is a compound?
Qualitative and Quantitative Data
What is the name of data collected through observational means such as colors, texture, taste? What is the name of data collected in the form of numbers and charts?
Non-unifying theme of Biology
What is Reductionism
Discovery Science and Hypothesis-based Science
What are the two main processes of science?
Impractical to look at the whole population. Helps us to make an inference on an observation.
What is, why we sample?
As the product accumulates signals will go towards slowing down production
What is Negative Feedback?
The formula for explanation.
What is Claim + Evidence + Reasoning?
Constructs models for dynamic behavior of whole biological system
What is Systems Biology?
Genome
What is the entire set of genetic information?
A mathematical equation which can help to better see the spread of a data set
What is the Standard Deviation
The order of species groupings
What is Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom, Domain?
Broad scope, helps to generate new hypotheses, supported by a large number of research.
What is a Theory?