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| Yarrow, same family as the carrot. |
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| Is an indication that even a false theory can be right sometimes. |
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| The order that moths and butterflys belong to. |
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The 3 types of eye facets in Drosophila melanogaster
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Wilde type=Normal Infrabar=Small Ultrabar=Smaller |
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Diversity Index (Plural: Indices) |
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a system which is intended to measure the biodiveristy of an ecosystem. Ex. - Simpson's Diveristy Index.
- Shannon's Diversity Index.
- Berger-Parker Index.
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Why study science from a historical perspective? Why learn old theories that have been falsified since?
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| The history of science gives us insights as to how humans have gone about developing scientific theory abd something about the typical approaches of the human brain. As we better understand the interactions of our brain with reality we might learn how to overcome some of our limitations. |
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"Science can never prove anything true." Why not?
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| Science can never prove anything true because there is always an alternative explanation for the outcome of a particular experiment. The outcome can not distinguish bewtween those two explanations. |
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What does science seek to do?
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| Make accurate predictions about the physical universe. When a theory continues to make accurate predictions, we keep it. When it doesn't we modify it or throw it out entirely. |
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