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| Natural World | Scientists use things in natural world; not theological/ religious things
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| Observation | To gather physical evidence; see, hear, smell, feel, taste, etc; technology
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| Objective | Not letting your beliefs or opinions get in the way; have to keep observation
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| Experimentation | A controlled observation; you make it happen
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| Repeated | Very important to repeat to prove or observe other variables that you cannot see
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| Gathering and Organizing | To let other people use it and pass along; work is used as a foundation
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| Self Correcting | Scientists always have to be able to accept new info/change views around us
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| Five Ingredients of the Market Revolution | New technologies; energy; capital investment; regulation; productivity vs. wage
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| Four ways in which humans degrade the environment | Pollution; habitat destruction; invasive species; over accumulation
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| History of Environmental Policy | Exploration (do everything you can to get it); conservation; pollution prevention
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| Ecosystem Services | Direct-shelter, medicine, food; indirect-delivered to us (mangroves, only worried about $); Aesthetic-most important, value, what we leave for the future, will probably decrease
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| Pseudoscience | Use of psychobabble-words that sound scientific in misleading manner; substantial reliance difficult to verify; extraordinary claims in absence of evidence; unfeasible claims; absence of connectivity to research; no peer review; lack self correction
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| What is evolution? | Any change in the heritable traits within populations across generations; random evolution; natural selection
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| What is the evidence for evolution? | Comparative anatomy; embryology & development; fossil records; DNA comparisons
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| How evolution works | Heredity passed from different characteristics of same species; mutations-random changes in DNA; random-all processes are based on chance; selection-those who survive
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| What is DNA? | Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid; Acts of blueprint for living things; tells amino acids how to form perfect shape and structure; lives in nucleus; a molecular blueprint for a living thing, 20 amino acids
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| What is a gene? | Sequence, 46 strands in DNA; 3 base pairs=4 proteins; they make proteins; length and sequence determine size of protein; special stretch of DNA that codes for something
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| What is natural selection? | Process by which randomly descent is produced in modification and change; make adaptations to environment
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| What is biodiversity? | The variety of life in the world or a particular habitat ecosystem
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| Biodiversity is a function of: | Climate; precipitation, temperature
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| Biodiversity is impacted by: | Habitat destruction; climate change; humans; over harvesting; invasive species; global trade; pesticides; pollution; medicine; you don't want to disturb the food chain
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