Who reviews articles for peer-reviewed journals?

anonymous and independent experts

How do scientific theories compare to hypotheses?

Theories unify a broad range of observations and hypotheses.

Why is creativity considered a scientific attitude?

helps scientists come up with different experiments.

How does sharing ideas through peer-reviewed articles help advance science?

Other scientists may come up with new questions to study.

Which of the following is NOT a goal of science?

to establish a collection of unchanging truths

A scientific hypothesis

can be tested by experiments or observations.

A scientist makes studies cancer. She skips peer review. How will other scientists react?

will be skeptical because the report was not peer-reviewed.

A scientist has a hypothesis about a virus. Other virus researchers would likely

design new experiments to test the proposed hypothesis.

Which of the following is a question that can be answered by science?

How does DNA influence a person’s health?

Scientists will never know for sure why dinosaurs became extinct. Therefore, scientists should

continue to study the dinosaur extinction.

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Ch 1 The Science of Biology

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1
The work of scientists usually begins with
testing a hypothesis.
careful observations
creating experiments.
drawing conclusions.
2
Biologists who work in the fields of genomics and molecular biology study
trees
the biosphere
diseases
DNA
3
Who reviews articles for peer-reviewed journals?
the scientists who did the experiments
anonymous and independent experts
friends of the scientists who wrote the articles
people who paid for the experiments
4
What does a reviewer do during peer-review?
Focus on mistakes in spelling.
Repeat the experiments in the article.
Change data to support results.
Check for mistakes and bias.
5
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of all living things?
ability to reproduce
growth and development
ability to move
response to the environment
6
How do scientific theories compare to hypotheses?
Hypotheses are the dominant view among scientists.
Theories are the same as hypotheses.
Theories unify a broad range of observations and hypotheses.
Hypotheses combine the ideas of theories to explain events.
7
Process by which organisms keep everything inside their bodies within certain limits is called
homeostasis.
metabolism.
evolution.
photosynthesis.
8
Why is creativity considered a scientific attitude?
imagine the results of experiments without doing them.
helps scientists come up with different experiments.
it helps scientists be better handling and training animals.
helps scientists make good posters to explain their ideas.
9
How does sharing ideas through peer-reviewed articles help advance science?
the ideas always support and strengthen dominant theories.
they do not need to be repeated.
Other scientists may come up with new questions to study.
because the ideas have been accepted by most scientists.
10
Information gathered from observing a plant grow 3 cm over a two-week period is called
variables
data
hypothesis
inferences
11
During a controlled experiment, a scientist isolates and tests
a control group.
a mass of information.
multiple variables
a single variable.
12
Science differs from other disciplines, such as history and the arts, because science relies on
theories.
observations.
numbers.
testing explanations.
13
A student sees a bee on a flower & wonders how the bee finds flowers. The student is displaying
curiosity.
open-mindedness.
skepticism.
creativity.
14
A well-tested explanation that explains a lot of observations is
an inference.
a theory.
a controlled experiment.
hypothesis.
15
Science is best described as a
list of rules
way of knowing.
collection of beliefs.
set of facts.
16
Which of the following is NOT a goal of science?
to explain events in the natural world
to investigate and understand the natural world
to establish a collection of unchanging truths
to use derived explanations to make useful predictions
17
A scientific hypothesis
can be tested by experiments or observations.
does not have to be tested to be accepted as correct.
can be based on personal beliefs or opinions.
is a proven fact with much evidence to support it.
18
A scientist makes studies cancer. She skips peer review. How will other scientists react?
They will denounce the work and call the scientist a fraud.
They will congratulate the scientist for the discovery.
quickly start to use the new treatment on their patients.
will be skeptical because the report was not peer-reviewed.
19
A theory
is the opening statement of an experiment.
is always true.
may be revised or replaced.
is a problem to be solved.
20
A personal preference or point of view is
a theory.
a hypothesis.
an inference.
a bias.
21
As a scientist if your findings are rejected and you consider the new evidence you are showing
skepticism
curiosity
open-mindedness
creativity
22
A scientist has a hypothesis about a virus. Other virus researchers would likely
change the hypothesis to fit their own findings.
design new experiments to test the proposed hypothesis.
assume that the hypothesis is true for all viruses.
reject the hypothesis right away.
23
Which of the following is a question that can be answered by science?
What is beauty?
How does DNA influence a person’s health?
Is it ethical to do experiments on animals?
Do people watch too much television?
24
Scientists will never know for sure why dinosaurs became extinct. Therefore, scientists should
work to raise live dinosaurs to study.
accept the current theory about dinosaur extinction.
stop studying dinosaurs and study only living animals.
continue to study the dinosaur extinction.
25
Based on observations, you suggest that water could speed the growth of bread mold. This is
a hypothesis
a conclusion.
an experiment
an analysis.

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