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will be skeptical because the report was not peer-reviewed.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