Activity 1.

The Scientist and the life

Name____________________________ID___________Date_________Group___

Part A: The evidence is the most decisive demonstration. Marco Tulio

Cicerón

I. Steps of the scientific

method

1.- What is the scientific method and what is it

for?

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2.- What are the 6 basic steps of the scientific method? Complete the following table.
Step Description Example

3.- What is the relationship between the scientific method and critical thinking?

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II. Experiment and its
elements

4.- What is an experiment and what is it for? _____________________________________________________

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5.- What is a variable? Distinguish and write an example of a qualitative variable and a quantitative variable:

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6.- In one experiment, three types of variables are distinguished, describe and include an example for
each:

Independent variable________________________________________________________________________

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Dependent variable: ________________________________________________________________________

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Controlled Variable:__________________________________________________________________________

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7.- For the design of the experiments it is necessary to form two groups that are related to the variables, describe
[indicating which variable (s) it relates to] and includes an example of each group:

Experimental Group:
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Control Group:
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III. Research process and publication of results

8.- Analyze the scheme presented to you as Figure 1 and explain what differences and similarities you identify
between the steps that are followed during a quantitative research process and the 6 basic steps of the scientific
method?

Similarities: _______________________________________________________________________________

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Differences:
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Figure 1. Quantitative Research Process (Hernández-Sampieri et al, 2014).

9.- Investigate at least 5 types with their respective names, of printed or digital reports prepared to publish
the results of an investigation:

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Part B. Can we someday create life? Can we avoid death?
IV. Theories about the origin of life

10.- Complete the following table:

Theory Description Does the scientific method

apply? Yes or no Justify your
answer

Creationism

Spontaneous generation

Panspermia

Physicochemical theory or Oparin's

chemosynthetic theory
 11.- Dibuja el experimento de Stanley Miller y Harold Urey, señalando todos los elementos utilizados y
contesta:

Figure 2. Representation of the Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

Experiment.

12.- What independent, dependent and controlled variables do you identify in the Stanley Miller and Harold Urey
Experiment conducted to prove Oparin's Theory about the origin of life?

Independient v.: ___________________________________________________________________________

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Dependient v.: ____________________________________________________________________________

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Controlled v.: _____________________________________________________________________________

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13.- How did they simulate the conditions of the early Earth (oceans and atmosphere) to demonstrate how the
organic compounds required to originate life could have arisen?

Ocean: ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Atmosphere:
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14.- What were the results of the Miller and Urey experiment? ___________________________________

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15.- At present, the Miller and Urey experiment and its results have been verified by other scientists indicating
that 100% were correct. T or F. Justify your answer.

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V. Endosymbiotic
Theory

16.- Explain what is the Lynn Margulis Endosymbiotic Theory?________ _______________________________

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17.- & 18.- Make a succession of drawings (like a comic) where each process proposed by the Endosymbiotic
Theory is exemplified. Your comic should contain: the appearance of prokaryotic primitive cells, the development
of the nucleus, the development of the endoplasmic reticulum, the appearance of mitochondria and chloroplasts to
the different eukaryotic cells. Value

Figure 3. Representation of the Endosymbiotic Theory of Lynn

Margulis

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VI. Characteristics of living
beings

19.- Match the information presented to you in the columns to know the 9 basic characteristics of living beings:
environment in balance.
1 Ability of living beings to keep their internal

2 Perpetuate or continue a species is the main ( ) Irritability

objective of the ......

3 Ability of living beings to respond to physical and

chemical stimuli that are presented in the ( ) Movement
environment in which they live.

4 It includes a series of processes that make it

( ) Evolution
possible for living beings to obtain, use and dispose
of matter and energy from and to the environment in
which they live.
( ) Organization
5 Ability of living beings to increase the number and /
or size of their cells and to change due to the
maturation and deterioration of their structures.
( ) Homeostasis
6 In living beings there is mechanical displacement of
some or all of its structures which can be internal or
external.
( ) Metabolism
7 Ability of living beings to modify their structures or
behaviors in order to adapt to the conditions of the
environment in which they develop.
( ) Reproduction
8 Characteristic of living beings that indicates that
they are formed by at least one cell.
( ) Growth and development
20.- Make a diagram where you draw the 9 basic characteristics of living beings and the relationship between them:

Figure 4. Representation of the 9 Characteristics of Living Beings.

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Resources
1. Recursos Método Científico:

Presentación Método Científico: https://es.slideshare.net/jorgearizpe/10-mtodo-cientfico

Presentation: Scientific Method https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4634772-dt-content-rid-17169793_1/xid-17169793_1

Video: The Scientific Method Steps, Terms and Examples https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4634772-dt-content-rid-14655548_1/xid-

14655548_1

Video: The Scientific Method https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4634772-dt-content-rid-14655549_1/xid-14655549_1

Video: Scientific method or scientific skills https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4634772-dt-content-rid-17749597_1/xid-17749597_1

Método Científico - BrainPOP español https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4634772-dt-content-rid-17749597_1/xid-17749597_1

Video: Scientific Method Song https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4634772-dt-content-rid-17749599_1/xid-17749599_1

Variables: Dependiente, Independiente y Controladas (inglés) Con subtítulos en inglés (Fertilizante en plantas)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ZB2RTylR4

Con subtítulos en inglés (tiempo de estudio vs calificaciones, uso de aspirinas vs dolor de cabeza,

tiempo de utilidad focos de marca vs focos marca comercial) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqj0rJEf3Ew&feature=youtu.be

2. Recursos Origen de la vida

Presentación Teorías del origen de la vida https://www.slideshare.net/jorgearizpe/1-primer-da-origen-de-la-vida-

espaol?ref=https://miscursos.tec.mx/webapps/blackboard/content/listContentEditable.jsp?content_id=_4545066_1&course_id=_43692_1

Presentation: Origins of Life https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4421123-dt-content-rid-17169789_1/xid-17169789_1

Video: 5 teorías sobre el origen de la vida https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4421123-dt-content-rid-14173502_1/xid-14173502_1

Video: Can science explain the origin of life https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4421123-dt-content-rid-14210454_1/xid-14210454_1

Video: Experimento de Miller https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4421123-dt-content-rid-14210455_1/xid-14210455_1

Video: How a single celled organism almost wiped out life on earth https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4421123-dt-content-rid-
14210457_1/xid-14210457_1

Origen de la Vida 1.30 Hrs (Documental complete del History Channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxPG4HdDVBA

3. Recursos Teoría Endosimbiótica

Animación desarrollo de los organelos http://www.bionova.org.es/animbio/anim/endosimbiosis.swf

Video: Teoría Endosimbiótica https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4421296-dt-content-rid-14179255_1/xid-14179255_1

Video: How think complex cells evolved https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4421296-dt-content-rid-14210459_1/xid-14210459_1

4. Recursos Características de los seres vivos

Presentación Características de los seres vivos https://www.slideshare.net/jorgearizpe/2-caracteristicas-de-los-seres-vivos-

espaol?ref=https://miscursos.tec.mx/webapps/blackboard/content/listContentEditable.jsp?content_id=_4545067_1&course_id=_43692_1

Presentation: Characteristics of Life (English) https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4421265-dt-content-rid-17169780_1/xid-

17169780_1

Video: ¿En qué momento estamos muertos? https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-4421265-dt-content-rid-14176009_1/xid-

14176009_1