BIOL150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Whirligig Beetle, Algal Bloom, Ecosystem Ecology
13 Jan 2017
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Inductive reasoning is drawing general conclusion from speci c observations. Deductive reasoning is drawing speci c predictions from general premises. Applied - trying to solve a speci c problem. Vaccination and autism example of the need for scienti c literacy and the characteristics of a good scienti c study - vaccine was created and some people started seeing autism in their kids after the shot. So people startd publishing in news papers that the vaccine caused autism in kids and people believed them without any scienti c evidence. People stopped taking the vaccine and cases of measles elevated. It was later revealed that there was no link btw autism and the vaccine. The one with phosphorus had an algae bloom: sub-organismal processes are still important. Lake effect - frost, winter lows, summer highs, increased precipitation, snow belts: aspect, vegetation - create shade, litter, moister and cooler, biogeography - the study of how organisms are distributed geographically.
