NATS 1660 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pie Chart, Ribose, Chromosome
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Restrict possibilities to the material (non supernatural) world (not religion: 2. Hypothesis formulation and testing: 3. objective approaches to minimize bias, 4. reliance on empirical data, 5. tentative nature of resulting knowledge. Cellular organisms store and transmit hereditary information in dna. Sometimes dna alterations occur, which, when preserved, result in evolutionary change. Today"s biological diversity is the product of a long evolutionary journey. Inductive reasoning : from specific cases to generalized conclusions like mendals experiment, were building a model of inheritance this inducive reasoning, deductive reasoning, generalized cases to specific applications, application of knowledge or theory to a specific case. In clownfish, these attributes have a biological basis not cultural. Biological sex binary: genetic -sharp, chromosomal -sharp, hormonal0 two groups to categorizing female or male, developmental, gonadal (ovaries and testes, morphological size and shape of statistical data, behaviour a lot of overlap.