BIOL 1108 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Meristem, Dioptre, Pupillary Distance
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The scientific method: explain the scientific method, the systematic processes that are used to guide science thought and problem- solving, know the process of scientific method, observing and stating the problem. Know/understand more about something: background research. Gather knowledge: relevant and accessible information: formulation of a hypothesis. Can be tested: testing the hypothesis. Support/not support hypothesis: publication of results. Existence of extinct species and enable us to date specific geologic points in time: molecular sequence data, structural homology. Similarities such as limbs and digits, due to common ancestor: developmental similarity. Comparing embryos all descend from common ancestor: vestigial structures. Structure had function in ancestors, currently has no/reduced function: wisdom teeth, convergent evolution. Two different species show similar characters because living in similar conditions: whale and shark, patterns of animal and plant distributions. Multicellular plants, animals and fungi: eubacteria. Single cellular plants, archaea, anabaena, thermophiles: know the geological era and the order of major events in history of life, hadean.
