science Flashcards

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what is the diffrence betwwen a law, fact and theory

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A scientific fact is an observation of the natural world, a theory is a well-substantiated explanation that ties together many facts and hypotheses, and a law is a descriptive statement, often mathematical, that predicts what will happen in specific situations but doesn’t explain why

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what cause a theory to be revised

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new evidence get discovered

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what evidence was used to devolpe the tenets

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the invention of the microscpope

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what are the cell theory tenets

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living things are made of cells,cells are the basic unit of life, all cells come from prexisting cells

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what new stuff was used to revise the cell theory

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better microscopes and advancments in molecular bio

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What is the definition of a hypothesis

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a hypothesis in is an explantion about a observation that is tested, it is a starting point

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