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WorksheetsWeek 1 Lecture Term Examples
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 11mins
Before Jeffrey conducted his experiment on bird migration, he gathered observations about the flying movement and direction of the birds as well as species. What type of data can these be classified as?
Quantitative data
Qualitative data
Which of the following would NOT be considered as qualitative data?
Taste of a granola bar
Temperature of a metal
Color of a feather
Texture of a blanket
Tony is observing a cell which includes a nucleus, mitochondria, and golgi apparatus. What type of cell can we most likely conclude this is?
Prokaryotic
Eukaryotic
I don't know
Prokaryotic cells would not contain which of the following?
Ribosomes
Cell wall
Cytoplasm
Nucleus
The Human Genome Project is known for sequencing and mapping the entire human genome. If a scientist is analyzing large sets of human genes, what type of study is this?
Biology
Genomics
Proteomics
Genology
John observes and analyzes the interactions that occur between a hummingbird and a flower. What type of study approach could this be?
Reductionism
Systems biology
All birds can fly. Chickens are birds. Therefore, chickens can fly. What type of reasoning would this be?
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
Meredith conducts an experiment on plant growth and amounts of water. She had a total of three plants. Each plant would receive either 10 mL, 30 mL, and 70 mL of water. Over time, she measured the height of the plant. What is the independent and dependent variable?
Independent: Plant height
Dependent: Plant growth
Independent: Plant height
Dependent: Amount of water
Independent: Plant growth
Dependent: Amount of water
Independent: Amount of water
Dependent: Plant height
All mammals have lungs. Dolphins are mammals. Thus, dolphins must have lungs. What type of reasoning is this?
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
It was sunny on the 1st of July last year. It was sunny on the 1st of July the year before that. It will most likely always be sunny on the 1st of July. What type of reasoning would this be?
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
Systems biology is mainly an attempt to ______________.
build high-throughput machines to rapidly acquire data
analyze genomes from different species
simplify complex problems by reducing the system into smaller, less complex units
understand the behavior of entire biological systems by studying interactions among its component parts
