how many species live in planet Earth? - ANSWER-unknown-roughly 3 to 5 million
why is life so incredibly diverse, yet so strangely similar? - ANSWER-organisms can contain similar features. planes have wings, birds have wings-this feature is useful for different things (different for penguins, pe...
BIO 182 Exam 1-ASU Questions and Answers
how many species live in planet Earth? - ANSWER-unknown-roughly 3 to 5 million
why is life so incredibly diverse, yet so strangely similar? - ANSWER-organisms can contain similar features. planes have wings, birds have wings-this feature is useful for different things (different for penguins, pelicans, bats, eagles)
true or false: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future? - ANSWER-
true or false: scientists believe in evolution even though they currently lack evidence for the theory - ANSWER-false
true or false: opposition to irrational numbers was based on evidence that such numbers cannot exist - ANSWER-false
true or false: opposition to irrational numbers stemmed from a worldview involving naturalistic evolution - ANSWER-false
true or false: the belief that irrational numbers cannot exist reflects religion more than science - ANSWER-true
true or false: modern mathematicians accept irrational numbers because such numbers provide more accurate solutions to problems than whole numbers do - ANSWER-true
the scientific method relies on.... - ANSWER-models, observations, and experiments
a model is a formal description of a scientific hypothesis. which provides the most precise description of a hypothesis? - ANSWER-
true or false: an experiment enables one to demonstrate that a correlation between two variables results from cause and effect - ANSWER-true
a well designed experiment... - ANSWER-controls for environmental and genetic factors, involves replications of experimental subjects, and randomizes experimental subject among treatments
true or false: unlike Wallace, Darwin did not believe that natural selection required variation among individuals - ANSWER-false
true or false: Wallace used induction to develop a model of evolution by natural selection - ANSWER-true
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