Scientific Method
Science and the Scientific Method
Science is an objective, logical, and repeatable attempt to understand the principles and forces operating in the natural universe. Science is from the Latin word, scientia, to know. Good science is not dogmatic, but should be viewed as an ongoing process of testing and evaluation. One of the hoped-for benefits of students taking a biology course is that they will become more familiar with the process of science.
Steps in the scientific method commonly include:
- Observation: defining the problem you wish to explain.
- Hypothesis: one or more falsifiable explanations for the observation.
- Experimentation: Controlled attempts to test one or more hypotheses.
- Conclusion: was the hypothesis supported or not? After this step the hypothesis is either modified or rejected, which causes a repeat of the steps above.
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