1.1: Introduction to Biological Inquiry
Science is knowing. Scientists search for knowledge through inquiry, which is a way of questioning and explaining phenomena that occur in nature. Let's begin by exploring how biologists and researchers use the scientific method in the scientific inquiry of life.
Read this discussion about the nature of science, scientific inquiry, and hypothesis testing.
Watch this lecture, which discusses the unifying themes of biology. We will cover the last portion of the lecture which describes the chemistry and properties of water in Units 2 and 3. Note that the lecturer later apologizes for saying the "thymus" enlarges when she had meant to refer to the "thyroid" when describing a goiter in the neck at the 30-minute mark of the video.