Examples of basic science in the following topics:
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- This question focuses on the differences between two types of science: basic science and applied science.
- Basic science or "pure" science seeks to expand knowledge regardless of the short-term application of that knowledge.
- Some individuals may perceive applied science as "useful" and basic science as "useless."
- Many scientists think that a basic understanding of science is necessary before an application is developed; therefore, applied science relies on the results generated through basic science.
- Without basic science, it is unlikely that applied science would exist.
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- There are many practical applications of ecology in conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource management (agroecology, agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, fisheries), city planning (urban ecology), community health, economics, basic and applied science, and human social interaction (human ecology).
- Finally, it is important to note that ecology is not synonymous with environment, environmentalism, natural history, or environmental science.
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- Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms.
- genes (consisting of DNA or RNA) are the basic unit of heredity
- Science is a process for learning about the natural world.
- Our current understanding of any issue in the sciences is the culmination of all previous work.
- Pseudoscience is often known as fringe or alternative science.
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- However, with the increasing amount of basic biological information growing due to advances in technology and databases, there is often cross-discipline and collaboration between branches.
- Forensic science is the application of science to answer questions related to the law.
- Biology is the culmination of the achievements of the natural sciences from their inception to today.
- Excitingly, it is the cradle of emerging sciences such as the biology of brain activity, genetic engineering of custom organisms, and the biology of evolution that uses the laboratory tools of molecular biology to retrace the earliest stages of life on earth.
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- We now know that genes, carried on chromosomes, are the basic functional units of heredity with the capability to be replicated, expressed, or mutated.
- Gregor Johann Mendel was a German-speaking Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the modern science of genetics.
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- Although using the scientific method is inherent to science, it is inadequate in determining what science is.
- These areas of study are still sciences, however.
- This type of reasoning is common in descriptive science.
- Both types of logical thinking are related to the two main pathways of scientific study: descriptive science and hypothesis-based science.
- Descriptive science and hypothesis-based science are in continuous dialogue.
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- A cell is the smallest unit of a living thing and is the basic building block of all organisms.
- What is the basic building block of that wall?
- Like a brick wall, your body is composed of basic building blocks, and the building blocks of your body are cells.
- Thus, cells are the basic building blocks of all organisms.
- (a) Nasal sinus cells (viewed with a light microscope), (b) onion cells (viewed with a light microscope), and (c) Vibrio tasmaniensis bacterial cells (seen through a scanning electron microscope) are from very different organisms, yet all share certain characteristics of basic cell structure.
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- Here we focus on the essentials of the method and then look at how
science is practiced.
- In the end, scientific method in the actual practice of science recognizes human biases and prejudices and allows deviations from the protocol.
- At its best, it provides guidance to the investigator to balance personal bias against the leaps of intuition that successful science requires.
- Science “as a way of knowing” the world around us constantly tests, confirms, rejects and ultimately reveals new knowledge, integrating that knowledge into our world view.
- Observe natural phenomena (includes reading the science and thoughts of others).
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- Cell theory states: living things are composed of one or more cells; the cell is the basic unit of life; cells arise from existing cells.
- The unified cell theory states that: all living things are composed of one or more cells; the cell is the basic unit of life; and new cells arise from existing cells.
- The cell is the basic unit of life and the study of the cell led to the development of the cell theory.