Combined Science GCSE
Scientific uncertainty and hypotheses
What Scientific uncertainty and hypotheses means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Scientific uncertainty and hypotheses
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Reference: AQA
Because the evidence is incomplete, scientists cannot be certain how life began and explanations remain hypotheses supported by indirect evidence.
Topics that use Scientific uncertainty and hypotheses
- Fossils (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Behaviour recorded by traces
- Common ancestry
- Comparing fossil and living structures
- Decay and preservation
- Evidence for relationships between organisms
- Extinction
- Fossils
- Incomplete fossil record
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