You explain to your study group that a hypothesis is:
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an explanation thataccounts for careful observations.
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a proposition thatwill be true and fits the known facts.
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a theory.
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A suggested explanation that might be true and is subject to testing by further
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observations is a(n):
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generality.
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theory.
Based on the literature, you hypothesize that students in traditional biology lectures will have the
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same grades as students in online biology lectures. You decide to test your hypothesis by
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comparing grades of students in traditional and online biology lectures over a semester. As a result
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of the experiment, you observe that the grades in the traditional lectures and the grades in the online
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lectures are not significantly different. What do these observations allow you to do?
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