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Bio 100 Exam 1 Latest Updates 2024/2025
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Bio 100 Exam 1 Latest Updates2024/2025
Observation, Problems and Questions, Hypothesis, Observations and
Experimentation, Data collection and analysis, Conclusions, Theories ANS✔✔
parts of the scientific method
Observation ANS✔✔ "My Roommate said Biology 200 students smile during
lab"
Problems and Questions ANS✔✔ "What is the most exciting class at
Minnesota State Mankato?"
Hypothesis ANS✔✔ "Bio 100 is the most exciting class at Minnesota State
Mankato"
Observations and Experiments ANS✔✔ "All exiting Minnesota State Mankato
seniors were given a survey asking them what class at Mankato the most
exciting"
Data Collection and Analysis ANS✔✔ "For the last 20 years surveys were
collected from exiting seniors and it was found that 99.9% of the seniors that
that BIO was the most exciting class taken at Mankato"
Conclusions ANS✔✔ "You will also find BIO very exciting"
Theories ANS✔✔ an explanation for a natural phenomenon; it is as close to
the truth as scientists can get and is accepted by a majority of scientists.
, Questioning ANS✔✔ Occurs when you identify and state a problem or ask a
question. Needs to be understandable, doable, and testable, falisifiable.
Good Characteristics of Hypotheses ANS✔✔ An educated guess or a possible
explanation for an observed set of facts that lends itself to being tested.
Must be testable through experiments, must be very specific, and can be
written in several formats.
Scientific Theory ANS✔✔ A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of
the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly
confirmed through observation and experiment.
Observation ANS✔✔ The process of gathering information throughout the
senses.
Subject Expectation ANS✔✔ Form of reactivity that occurs in scientific
experiments when a research subject expects a given result and therefore
unconsciously affects the outcome
Observer Bias ANS✔✔ Occurs when the observers know the goals of the
study or the hypotheses and allow this knowledge to influence their
observations during the study.
Double Blind Experiment ANS✔✔ Neither the participants nor the researchers
know which participants belong to the control group, nor the test group.
Random Assignment ANS✔✔ Placement is an experimental technique for
assigning subjects to different treatments
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