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scientific method
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science characterized by an organized approch
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observation
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the act of perceiving a natural occurence that causes someone to pose a question
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hypothesis
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a proposed explanation for the way a particular aspect of the natural world functions
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prediction
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a statement that forecast what would happen in a test situationif the hypothesis were true
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experiment
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used to test a hypothesis and it's predictions
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control group
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provides a normal standard against which the biologist can compare results of the experimental group
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experimental group
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identical to control group except for one factor the independant variable
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independant variable
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experimenter manipulates
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depentant variable
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is affected by the indepentant variable
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theory
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when a set of related hypotheses is confermed to be true many times it can be explain a great amount of data
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peer review
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scientists read and critique others reasearch
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