{"id":2062,"date":"2020-11-17T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/?page_id=2062"},"modified":"2020-11-24T19:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:05:14","slug":"biology-terminology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/?page_id=2062","title":{"rendered":"Biology – Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PROFESSOR TIPS<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Terminology<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Writing lab reportS<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Important Terminology for Lab Reports<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Affect vs. Effect:<\/strong> affect is a verb; to produce a change in or impact results. Effect is a noun; describes the observed change or impact on test groups or results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysis:<\/strong> study and examination of results and what they mean<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calculations:<\/strong> processing of raw data to show patterns or summary statistics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Control:<\/strong> test group that is not treated with any variable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consistent:<\/strong> describes data or results that show little variation or align with an explanation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correlates:<\/strong> describes a relationship between variables that change or occur together<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data:<\/strong> (plural) information, qualitative or quantitative, gathered for experiment; process of gathering discussed in methods section<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experimental Error:<\/strong> addressed in discussion section; possible explanations for unexpected results; areas where inaccurate measurements or observations may have been made<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factors:<\/strong> often used in discussion to describe things that might affect some result or observation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Observations:<\/strong> notes or record of events that may have occurred during experimental process<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Procedure:<\/strong> series of steps or methods used throughout experiment to collect and process data or observations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purpose:<\/strong> what did you hope to achieve from this experiment? more general than hypothesis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significant:<\/strong> description of results that are relevant to hypothesis; can either support or refute. Statistically, significant values have a p-value less than 0.05.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Support\/Refute:<\/strong> terms used to state whether or not results would be expected if the hypothesis were true; CANNOT prove or disprove hypothesis (never 100% sure)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trial(s):<\/strong> number of times the experimental procedure was repeated to produce more results<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Variables:<\/strong> experimental elements that are being observed; often expected to see some difference between control and variable groups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Important Terminology for Lab Reports Affect vs. Effect: affect is a verb; to produce a change in or impact results. Effect is a noun; describes the observed change or impact on test groups or results. Analysis: study and examination of results and what they mean Calculations: processing of raw data to show patterns or summary statistics Control: test group … Continue reading Biology – Terminology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6113,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2062\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}