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1.1 Biologically Speaking 1.1 Biologically Speaking 1.1 Biologically Speaking
  • Human beings have characteristics in common with all living things, and they also have a cultural inheritance.


  • Human beings share an evolutionary history with other living things, and they belong to the biosphere.
  1. How are humans organized, biologically speaking?
    Answer

  2. The life of a human being includes what developmental stages?
    Answer

  3. By what processes are humans related to all other living things?
    Answer

  4. How are ecosystems organized and how do humans threaten ecosystems and therefore the biosphere?
    Answer

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1.2 The Process of Science 1.2 The Process of Science 1.2 The Process of Science
  • The scientific method is the process by which scientists gather information about the material world.
  1. What steps do biologists follow to gather information and come to conclusions about the natural world?
    Answer

  2. Why do laboratory studies have a control group?
    Answer
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1.3 Science and Social Responsibility 1.3 Science and Social Responsibility 1.3 Science and Social Responsibility
  • What steps do biologists follow to gather information and come to conclusions about the natural world?

  • Why do laboratory studies have a control group?
  1. Who is responsible for deciding how to use new emerging scientific information and discoveries?
    Answer
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