Chapter . Test Slide Activity

Introduction

Learning Objectives

• Differentiate between scientific and alternative ways of thinking
• Describe the attributes of scientific and biological literacy
• Apply the scientific method to everyday situations
• Understand the flexibility of the scientific method
• Design critical experiments to test hypotheses
• Understand the importance of well-designed and controlled experiments
• Describe ways to blind experiments
• Describe the biases that can occur in scientific studies and ways to reduce those biases
• Understand how statistics can add support to scientific claims
• Identify pseudoscience and anecdotal evidence masked as scientific evidence
• Understand the limitations of science as a means to answer questions
• Understand how hierarchical organization and evolution tie together all the major themes in biology

Science is a Collection of Facts and a Process for Understanding the World

A Beginner’s Guide: What Are the Steps of the Scientific Method?

While some people envision scientists in labs checking off the steps of the scientificmethod as they work, in reality the scientific method is more of a flexible set of guidelines for scientific thinking.