BIO 1130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Inductive Reasoning, Environmental Determinism, Mollusca

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Francois Chapleau

Document Summary

Facts: the fastest lan animal (>110 km/h, huge acceleration (0-75 km/h in 2 seconds, amazing hunters but only 10,000 individuals left. Hindlegs: pelvis girdle fused to the vertebral column allowing for great power and motor propulsion. Scientific method: science is a coherent body of knowledge related to certain categories of facts, objects, or phenomena, obeying laws that are veri able through experimental methods, scienti c inquiry aims to acquire new knowledge, there are 2 approaches. Description based - describing nature - very important in bio for new species. Hypothesis based - explaining nature - nding and reporting the laws of nature. Saturday, september 30, 2017: inductive reasoning is linked to a descriptive base approach. Making generatizations based on many speci c observations. Particular -> general: deductive reasoning is linked to hypothesis based approach. Stating a hypothesis and drawing a conclusion (after experimentation and observation) from the hypothesis.