Chapter 19, Problem 12RQ

Identify a possible advantage and a possible disadvantage of a genetic test that would identify genes in individuals that increase their probability of having Alzheimer’s disease later in life.

Should Ockhams razor be considered an irrefutable principle of logic or a practical guideline? Why?

CONNECT In what ways does systems biology depend on reductionism?

Do you think Frederick Williams experiment would have worked better if he had ordered brothersister marriages within tall families instead of just choosing the tallest individuals from throughout the country?

A control group is ______. a. a set of individuals that have a characteristic under study or receive an experimental treatment b. the standard against which an experimental group is compared c. the experiment that gives conclusive results

A person notices that her houseplants that are regularly exposed to music seem to grow more quickly than those in rooms with no music. As a result, she determines that plants grow better when exposed to music. This example most closely resembles which type of reasoning? inductive reasoning deductive reasoning neither, because no hypothesis was made both inductive and deductive reasoning

Define environmental variance.

The type of logical thinking that uses related observations to arrive at a general conclusion is called_______. a. deductive reasoning b. the scientific method c. hypothesis-based science d. inductive reasoning