BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Binomial Nomenclature, Arithmetic Progression, Inductive Reasoning

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

Document Summary

Pectoral girdle not directly fused to the vertebral column, slides on ribcage cheetah will never defend prey because if it gets hurt it cant hunt and will die. All cheetahs are the same, if one gets sick they all get sick. Cheetahs are a result of 3,500 million years of evolution because more than 99% of it"s features evolved in species that are now extinct and less than 1% of it"s features are unique. Inductive reasoning vs deductive reasoning: inductive reasoning is just a generalization based on observations and deductive reasoning involves a hypothesis and drawing conclusions. The scientific process: you need to observe nature to make a hypothesis and you need to do experiments. If when statement: if this is then this will be. Contract between science and knowledge: skepticism, realism, rationality, and methodological materialism. Scientist will always question their own work and others.