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What is a Claim ?

• An educated guess.

• A question about the natural world.

• a statement about how the world works that can be tested using the scientific method. (It can be a statement or an answer to a question)

• Is a problem that needs to be fixed.

What is a Bias?

• a prejudice or opinion for or against something.

• A complant about something or someone.

• Someone who has credentials.

• Is the data collected from the experiment.

Which is an example of Secondary Literature ?

• The New York Times

• Reddit

• Facebook

• Ecological Society of America

Which is an Example of Primary Literature?

• The Los Angeles Times

• Biology Now (Your Textbook)

• Twitter

• JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)

In the Example from Class: The mothers who vaccinated their children with MMR vacine and 8 out of 12 children became autisic after the vaccine is an example of

• Correlation

• Causation

What is Herd Immunity?

• A Critical portion of the population is NOT vacinated and everyone has the disease.

• A Critcal portion of the population is vaccinated , so the spread of the disease will be contained.

• Is an example of an Outbreak.

• Only associated with animals NOT humans.

What is Evidence?

• Is your conclusion or explanation.

• Is any Data or Observational Data used to support your claim.

• Is in the Scientific Method

• Answers a question/ is a statement.

Reasoning is

• The Explanation or conclusion. (Claim + Evidence)

• Your Opinion about the Claim.

• Your Hypothesis.

• Your attempt to get someone to agree with you.

1) In 1668, Francesco Redi wanted to know if meat could spontaneously produce maggots as many people thought at the time. Redi believed that the maggots came from flies that lay eggs on the rotting meat. He placed one piece of meat in a jar and covered it with cloth. He left another piece of meat in a jar uncovered. After two weeks, he inspected the meat and found that the one in the covered jar did not have maggots, but the one open to the air did have maggots. What is the CLAIM Redi madeabout the meat?

• Redi beleieved that the maggots spontaneously generated or came about in the meat.

• Redi Believed that the maggots come form the air.

• Redi believed that the maggots came from flies that lay eggs on the rotting meat.

• Redi believed that the maggots came from people touching the raw meat.

1) In 1668, Francesco Redi wanted to know if meat could spontaneously produce maggots as many people thought at the time. Redi believed that the maggots came from flies that lay eggs on the rotting meat. He placed one piece of meat in a jar and covered it with cloth. He left another piece of meat in a jar uncovered. After two weeks, he inspected the meat and found that the one in the covered jar did not have maggots, but the one open to the air did have maggots. What is the EVIDENCE to support Redi's Claim?

• After two weeks, he inspected the meat and found that the one in the covered jar did not have maggots, but the one open to the air did have maggots.

• After two weeks there were no maggots.

• After two weeks the maggots died.

• After two weeks, people agreed with redi.