BIOL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tetravalence, Falsifiability, Monomer
15 Sep 2016
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Biology is one branch of science, and cell biology is a branch of biology. Cells are the building blocks of life on the planet. Scientific method- investigative approach to acquiring knowledge by making observations about the natural world, developing explanations and testing those explanations. Biology- to know about the living world, about life. Standard approach of the scientific method: characterization, hypothesis, experimentation. Hypothesis-based science observations can lead us to ask questions. A hypothesis is a tentative answer/explanation to a well framed question. A hypothesis must be testable and falsifiable. Often create two or more alternative hypotheses. A scientific hypothesis leads to predictions that can be tested by observation or experimentation. Failure to falsify a hypothesis does not prove that hypothesis. Say the results support your hypothesis, never say it is proven to be true because the hypothesis could still be disproven in the future. Controlled experiment- compares an experimental group with a control group.
