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Hi class! My name is Melissa Sanchez. I live in the state of Washington in a
small area known as Tri-Cities. I have my AA in anthropology, and I am
currently pursuing to obtain my bachelor's in environmental science. Since
earning my AA,
I am rediscovering my love of science. I am currently
exploring ways to integrate both into my career. I have started an
internship with my college professor to learn under him and being
able to visit an excavation site known as Coyote Canyon Mammoth
to have hands on experience too. I am hoping to connect with some
scientists within the site over the next few months to hear more
about their experiences and responsibilities. I believe this course will
help me in the field I am studying because it will teach me more
about life and living organisms, including their structure, function,
growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. The scientific
method is important to biology because by using the scientific
method, we may test a hypothesis and tell the difference between a
phenomenon's real cause and its relationship with one or more other
events. One cannot conclude the source and effect of a relationship
between two variables from their relation. Now a way that I use
scientific method in my daily life and routine is for example driving
you would ask a question like what is the fastest route to get home?
From there you would create a hypothesis, for example taking Main
Street to Elm Street to avoid the light on Maple Avenue is the fastest
route home. From there I would apply that hypothesis as an
experiment by driving home at the same time each day at the same
speed, taking a variety of routes. Making sure I include each route
that I used to create my hypothesis, from there I would record the
time for each route. I would then analyze all the different route
times, selecting the fastest one. Which would then lead me to my
conclusion to determine whether my route hypothesis is correct or
not.
