Biology

3. the range of values within which the true value is likely to fall.
4. there is a conceivable test that might produce evidence proving the idea false.
8. broad explanations for a wide range of phenomena.

1. what we would expect to happen or what we would expect to observe if this idea were accurate.
2. however, are much more informed than any guess and are usually based on prior experience, scientific background knowledge, preliminary observations, and logic.
4. statements that we know to be true through direct observation seeing something with your own eyes.
5. refers to a generalization about data and is a compact way of describing what we’d expect to happen in a particular situation.
6. often associated with ideas about which we have strong convictions, regardless of the evidence for or against them.
7. the difference between a measurement and the true value, often resulting from taking a sample.