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Chapter 1 – The Science of Biology
Study Guide
1.1What is Science?
• What is Biology?
• How is science a process?
• How is science a thing? (a body of knowledge)
• How is science different from other human endeavors?
• What are the steps of the scientific method?
• What is an inference?
• What is a hypothesis?
• What are variables?
• Why is it important to control variables?
• Know how to set up a controlled experiment
• What is an independent variable?
• What is a dependent variable?
• Qualitative vs. Quantitative data
• What is the most common way to reduce error and validate results in experiments
• Be able to analyze experiments to make conclusions and to identify sources of error
• Why is it not always possible to perform experiments?

2. 1.2 Science in Context
• How are technology and science linked?
• What is peer review? Why is it important?
• What is a theory?
• What is bias? How does it affect science?
1.3Studying Life
• What are the 8 characteristics of living things?
• What is DNA?
• What is homeostasis?
• Know a few fields of biology and what they study
• What is the metric system and why is it important that all scientists use it?
• Know everything about safety in the lab