BIO 1130 Lecture 3: BIO1130 Lecture 3

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Science = a coherent body of knowledge (related to certain categories of facts, objects, or phenomena), that obeys laws that are verifiable through experimental methods. Scientific inquiry to acquire new knowledge: description based (ex; describing nature, hypothesis based (ex; explaining nature, more ambitious) Inductive reasoning: linked to descriptive based approach, particular observation generalization. Deductive reasoning: linked to hypothesis based approach, general particular. All scientific inquiry starts with one or multiple observations: ex; massive fish death in a lagoon in florida. Lots of dead fish hypothesize why this occurred. Madagascar falsified hypothesis: ex; evolution has never been scientifically falsified, and is a theory (can never be fact) Must respect 4 clauses of the contract". Scientific contract": way of acquiring knowledge (contract between science and knowledge, skepticism: doubt facts and hypotheses, and retest findings, best hypothesis is not necessarily proven" but is the one that survived most tests. Batesian mimicry: animal that is non-toxic, and imitates colour/pattern of a toxic animal.