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| Microevolution without human influence |
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| angents of microevolutions change the DNA of a population over time-humans don't do anything |
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| Microevolution with human influence |
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| humans influence the agents of microevolution which then change the DNA of a population over time |
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| Humans mix large quanitites of unknown function from two individuals by mating those individuals and look for offspring with desired phenotype |
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| humans make one ore more unknown changes to DNA using a mutagen and look for offspring with desired phenotype |
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| humans add a small piece of DNA with known function to get the desired phenotype-requries selective breeding after addition of DNA |
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| Key characteristics of science |
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1. science focuses on the natural world
2. science aims to explain the natural world
3. science uses testable ideas
4. science relies on evidence
5. science involves the scientific community
6. science leads to ongoing research
7. science requires specific behaviors |
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| seeks to improve human condition |
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| modifies and uses living organisms in ways that "improve" human condition |
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| Fundamental scientific controversy |
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| scientist disagreeing about central theory or hypothesis |
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| Secondary scientific controversy |
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| disagreeing over less central aspect-change wouldn't shake science core |
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| Conflict over ethicality of methods |
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| disagreement over appropriatness of method used for scientific research |
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| conflict over applications |
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| application of scientific knowledge |
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| peer-reviewed scientific studies published in scientific journals-follow format learned in lab-reports with intro, method, results, and discussion/conclusion |
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| discuss primary source of information, provides enough information for the reader to envision sceintific process and find primary source if desired |
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