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Introduction: Science and scientific hypothesis are testable explanation for a natural phenomenon, and testing hypothesis may prove it false. Scientific theories are based on particular objective descriptions of natural world.
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Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)
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