Several biology questions

Question

1.What is the Goal of Science?

2.How does an observation differ from an inference about that object?

3.How does a hypothesis help scientists understand the natural world?

4. Describe three possible ways in which a hypothesis may arise?

5.Why is it advantageous for scientists to test only one variable at a time during an experiment?

Answer 1

1. To find ways to describe natural occurrences in the universe.

2. An inference is an assumption made about an object based on observation.

3. A hypothesis gives scientists something to work for, a question to answer using the rest of the scientific method. A hypothesis gives scientists something to work towards.

4. Observation of an occurrence or object, expanding on research done by another scientist, or as the result of a human medical issue.

5. If you test more than one variable at a time you can't determine which variable effected the resulting data.