A biology student has captured, measured, and released many ground squirrels from an upland, rocky, wooded area, and many similar ground squirrels from a shrub area in soft soil near a stream. She is measuring skull dimensions, leg and claw lengths and shapes, and other traits of the ground squirrels from each collection area hoping to determine if the two populations are different species. She is involved in
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taxonomy.
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Which one of the following of the following statements is FALSE?
A) Science is a process. B) Scientists use the scientific method to gain knowledge about the natural world. C) Because scientific knowledge is empirical, it cannot be tested. D) Knowledge gained through the scientific method can be used to predict the natural world. E) The scientific method involves many different ways of obtaining information.
When a crocodile eats a fish, the interspecific interaction between the two could be expressed as ________ for the crocodile and ________ for the fish
A) ? ; ? B) + ; + C) + ; ? D) ? ; +