How do scientific theories compare to hypotheses?

Theories unify a range of hypotheses

Why is creativity a scientific attitude?

help them to come up with different experiments

How does sharing the results of research through peer-reviewed articles help advance science?

May help to come up with new questions to study

Who reviews articles for peer-reviewed journals?

anonymous and independent experts

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The Science of Biology

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Miller and Levine Chapter One

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1
How do scientific theories compare to hypotheses?
Hypotheses are the dominant view among scientists
Hypotheses explain events
They are the same
Theories unify a range of hypotheses
2
The process where organisms keep everything inside their bodies within certain limits is called
photosynthesis
evolution
homeostatsis
metabolism
3
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of all living things?
ability to reproduce
response to the environment
ability to move
growth and development
4
Why is creativity a scientific attitude?
to imagine the results of an experiment with no testing
to make them better ar handling animals
scientists need to make posters
help them to come up with different experiments
5
How does sharing the results of research through peer-reviewed articles help advance science?
May help to come up with new questions to study
They always strengthen and support theories
The contain ideas accepted by most scientists
The results do not need to be repeated
6
Based on your observations, you suggest that something will or will nor take place. This is
a conclusion
an analysis
an experiment
a hypothesis
7
Science is best described as a
way of knowing
body of information
list of rules
collection of beliefs
8
Science differs from other disciplines, such as history, because science relies on
theories
facts
testing explanations
observations
9
A scientist proposes a hypothesis about how Ebola is cured. Other researchers would
reject the hypothesis
assume that it is true
change the hypothesis
test the hypothesis
10
Which big idea in biology is MOST concerned with DNA?
cellular basis of life
interdependence in nature
matter and energy
information and heredity
11
During a controlled experiment, a scientist isolates and tests
a conclusion
a control group
a mass of information
a single variable
12
What are the smallest units that biologists study?
molecules
organisms
organs
cells
13
Measurements made while observing a plant grow over a two-week period are called
data
variables
hypotheses
inferences
14
A well-tested explanation that explains a lot of observations is
a hypothesis
a theory
an inference
a controlled experiment
15
Who reviews articles for peer-reviewed journals?
people who are paid to
anonymous and independent experts
friends of the writer
the scientists who wrote the article

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