Chapter One Biology (The Starting Point: The Scientific Method)

A useful hypothesis is _____

A testable statement

Which of the following is a scientific concept?

All of the these

In conducting an experiment, a scientist follows a process of scientific inquiry that include which of the following

All of these

The fundamental core of scientific content knowledge consists of _______

All of these

What steps do investigators take before forming a hypothesis?

All of these

Which of the following is an example of technology?

All of these

A theory is ____

An idea unconfirmed by evidence

Results of a clinical trial demonstrated that an antibiotic eradicated the infection in 98% o fate study subjects. Therefore, you _______

Construct another hypothesis

If a study fails to produce the expected results, you would _____

Continue observing and asking questions

In an experiment, which of the following variable is used as a baseline for comparison?

Control

Which of the following is a scientific process, rather than a concept?

DNA

Physiology is the study of ____ hematology is the study of ____, and histology is the study of _____

Function, Blood, Tissues

After completing a controlled experiment, a scientist changes the dosage of an antibiotic and repeats the experiment. The change in damage is the______

Independent Variable

Your study data show that teenage drivers cause 30 percent more car accidents than adults over the age of 25, so you _____ that high schools need better driver education programs

Infer

Which of the following is NOT one of the fundamental characteristic of science?

Is an ongoing, active process

Which of the following statements is a scientific generalization

Many birds migrate south for the winter

If you wanted to learn about the composition of the universes, you would study _______

Meteorology

You design a clinical trail with human subjects to evaluate the efficacy of an antibiotic in eradicating a bacterial infection. which of the following would be used as the control in this study?

No treatment

The correct hypothesis for a study to measure the effectiveness of a pesticide in eradicating a specific mld infecting a crop is that if the peptide is administered, then the mold will _____

Not be eradicated

An _____ hypothesis states that there is no relationship between an indecent and dependent variable

Null

Which of the following is NOT involved in the process of interpreting data?

Predicting

The function of a hypothesis is to _____

Provide direction for gathering data

The fact that we no longer believe the earth is flat attests to the fact that is an ______ process

Self correcting

You are a public health researcher who wants to conduct a study of the prevalence of a disease in a rural village in India. To define this study operationally, you would specify the _____

Study population

Which of the following traits is indicative of an unscientific attitude?

Superstition

In a clinical study to measure the effectiveness of an antibiotic, which of the following is the independent variable?

The antibiotic being tested

The scientific method includes al of the following EXCEPT _____

Theories

Termites are social insects; therefore, communication is essential to their well being. How do they communicate ?

Use chemicals known as pheromones

Determining the quantitative relationships among data involves whit of the following scientific?

Using numbers

When you say that the earth orbits the sun, you are ____

stating a scientific fact