a. an important role for some discoveries
b. a very minor role
c. no role
d. is involved in all scientific discoveries
2007-02-07 09:52:12 · 7 answers · asked by siran357 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
D. Chance is always a factor, nothing is 100%. Some times chance is a minor factor, other times it's huge. Think about it this way, lots of science involves studying populations, wether it's bacteria, viral infections, migration patterns of moose or whatever. There are probabilities involved, there are standard curves involved. Chance is a player in all of that.
The research that made up most of my PhD work originated from a chance observation of a bacterial behavior on a Petri dish. The earlier research I did at the beginning of my PhD was more of a prolonged measurement and identification of a subtle trait of a particular mutant we purposefully made. So for that aspect chance played a very minor role.
2007-02-08 03:29:37 · answer #1 · answered by John V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This sounds like a school question, and it's a stupid one to even ask. As cityonedown says, "all of them". That's right, luck has played an important role in some serendipitous scientific discoveries, such as the discovery of the cosmic microwave background, luck didn't have much to do with others, such as Edison's persistence in finding a good light bulb, luck IN THEORY plays no role in science, but that's not how it actually comes out, and "chance" plays one way or another in all scientific discoveries, because it's "chance" who gets born and grow up to be the scientists making the discoveries. There is no good answer for this one at all, and I dismiss this one as a silly exercise, thought up by some supposed educators who think they've got an handle on science. Everybody who answers here will be right, and all will deserve 10 points.
2007-02-07 18:05:04 · answer #2 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really understand the question. Role in discovering things; or its role in science itself, like the movement of electrons.
If the former, then I would go with d. There's a certain amount of chance involved in everything.
If the latter, I would say a. Some theories and laws do require chance (evolution, electrons, chaos theory). However, others (like, conversation of matter and energy) have nothing to do with chance. They are definite.
2007-02-07 17:58:55 · answer #3 · answered by siegfriedbalmung 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a very vauge question, depending on what the question really wants I would unfortunately have to say c or d
2007-02-07 18:01:58 · answer #4 · answered by urbaninvisible 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the above.
It can either be a blessing or a curse.
2007-02-07 17:57:58 · answer #5 · answered by cityonedown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my experience it would be C and lots of dedication.
2007-02-07 17:57:15 · answer #6 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say D
2007-02-07 18:58:18 · answer #7 · answered by mcavey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋