1. Why are kids afraid of ghosts? 2. Should I feed the raccoons that visit my trash can? 3. How does mouse color affect mouse su
rvival? 4. Does a mother duck love her babies? Which statement correctly identifies the scientific question and describes why the question is scientific? Question 1 refers to the supernatural. Question 2 reflects a moral or social value. Question 3 refers to something that can be measured. Question 4 reflects a question that can’t be observed.
Question 3 refers to something that can be measured.
If you'd like to know why, please read on:
A scientific question is a question that can lead to a hypothesis. A question is considered scientific if one can design an investigation to answer the question. To put it simply, you can answer the question through testing and experimentation. These type of questions are based on <u>scientific</u> ideas, thus supernatural, morality, opinions and the like are not considered scientific because they are not observable.
Molecular clocks use rates of mutation to measure evolutionary time.Mutations add up at a fairly constant rate in the DNA of species that evolved from a common ancestor. The more mutations that happened in each lineage, the greater is the differences between these lineages.
