The crossroads between biology and mathematics: The scientific method as the basics of scientific literacy

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 632-638

  Karsai, Istvan ^a   Kampis, George ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

BIO2010; hypothesis testing; modeling and simulation; scientific method; validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956395986     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.8.9     Document Type: Article

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