Can someone please tell me about this Biology concept!?!?

Question

How can you tell the difference between inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning?!?! Thanx in advance

Answer 1

Inductive reasoning is when you observe particular things, and you use what you observe to formulate a general principle. Example: every day, you observe a variety of birds eating worms and insects. They keep doing this, and they appear to thrive. You would use inductive reasoning to come up with the general principle that some species of birds survive by eating insects.

Deductive reasoning is the opposite process. You already have the general principle in mind, and you look to see it applied in specific cases. Say, you've heard that green plants have chlorophyll and make their own food. When you go out in the woods and find a plant with green leaves, you know that this plant has chlorophyll and makes its own food -- you used deductive reasoning here.

These principles don't by definition have anything to do with hunches or intuition, although we sometimes use intuition to assist our reasoning.

Answer 2

It's not really a biology concept, but more of a logic concept.

Anyway, inductive reasoning is a form of logic where the premises for an argument support the conclusion, but are unable to ensure it. For example, you observe that stars twinkle in the sky, so you induce that all stars twinkle similarly. Your induction supports your conclusion, but is unable to prove its truth (it's like an assumption).

So, deductive reasoning is another form of logic where the premises necessitate the conclusion through the use of facts. For example, if you were rolling a pair of six-sided dice, you could deduce that the total of the two dice is 2-12. Your deduction necessitates your conclusion (it's like an educated hypothesis).

Answer 3

inductive = intuition, a hunch, a feeling, just knowing
deductive is following a chain of clues to a conclusion

Answer 4

these are two types of formulating hypothesis while dealing with a scientific problem..
deductive reasoning goes from general to specific conclusion..i.e you deduce a result e.g all birds have wings,sparrows have wings so we deduce that sparrows are birds.
inductive reasoning goes from specific to general i.e we know that sparrows are birds and have wings.similarly on examining we came to know that parrots, skylark, thrush, robbin,etc have wings therefore all birds have wings.

Answer 5

yea somthin like that^^^