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Study Data lecture notes PDF with biology definitions and explanation to study What is Data?. Study data explanation with biology terms to review biology course for online degree programs.

Data Definition:

  • Data are items of information on which scientific inquiry is based.

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Data Notes:

Statistics and facts collected for reference, observation and analysis is known as data. Data is a set of values of subjects with respect to qualitative or quantitative variables. Data and information or knowledge are often used interchangeably; however data becomes information when it is viewed in context or in post-analysis. An example of scientific of scientific data can be anything from genome sequence to protein structure etc.

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