BIOLOGY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Spindle Apparatus, Sister Chromatids, Nuclear Membrane
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For all practical purposes, is accepted as true Statement about the natural world leading to deduction that can be tested by experimentation or observation. Explanation of a range of observations that include tested hypotheses by multiple researchers. Well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and test hypotheses. Because we can never be sure our observation won"t falsify a conjecture, we can never truly claim that a theory is true. Generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances. Descriptive because it predicts what will happen in a situation when the range of possible conditions is limited. Claims that cannot be subjected to tests are inherently non-scienti c. Process: make a hypothesis (all swans are white), nd a potential falsi er to your hypothesis (some swans are black), make your observation (every swan yet observed in europe and north.
