Biology GCSE
Scientific uncertainty and hypotheses
What Scientific uncertainty and hypotheses means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Scientific uncertainty and hypotheses
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Reference: AQA
Several plausible ideas remain hypotheses rather than certainties, because the events cannot be repeated or directly observed.
Topics that use Scientific uncertainty and hypotheses
- Fossils (AQA GCSE)
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- Change over geological time
- Common ancestry
- Comparing fossil and living structures
- Conditions for decay
- Data handling skills
- Decay and preservation
- Evidence and bias
- Evidence for evolution
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