📌 Inductive reasoning uses related observations to reach a general conclusion, whereas deductive reasoning uses a general principle or law to forecast specific results.
Induction moves from observations to a general conclusion; deduction moves from a general law to specific results.
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📌 Basic science seeks to expand knowledge regardless of its short-term application, whereas applied science aims to use science to solve immediate problems as defined by the researcher.
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📌 If experimental data do not support a hypothesis, a new hypothesis can be proposed.
Peer review is a blind process in which reviewers assess submitted experiments, results, and interpretations for their veracity and merit for publication.
Scientific papers typically follow this order:
Organization builds upward from atoms to the biosphere.
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📌 Bacteria and Archaea are prokaryotes: single-celled organisms that lack intracellular organelles.
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1. What makes scientific knowledge distinctively scientific?
2. A researcher notices that several plants exposed to less light grow more slowly, then concludes that reduced light generally slows plant growth. Which reasoning is being used?
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What does biology study?
Living organisms and their interactions with one another and their environments.
What is science?
Knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws, especially when acquired and tested by the scientific method.
How does inductive reasoning use related observations?
It uses them to reach a general conclusion.
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