Both phenomenological and mechanistic explanations are important in modern scien

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Both phenomenological and mechanistic explanations are important in modern science. In this unit, we will be looking at mechanistic explanations for motion while the last unit was purely phenomonological.

Select the explanations below that are mechanistic explanations. There may be more than one answer!

A- Kleiber's Law: The metabolic rate  R of an animal scales with the 3/4 power of the animal's mass m : Rm3/4 B- The Theory of Evolultion: New species arise through the natural selection of random mutations C- Fire is hot D- The addition of heat energy to ice at 0C will cause it to melt

Explanation / Answer

A- Kleiber's Law: The metabolic rate  R of an animal scales with the 3/4 power of the animal's mass m : Rm3/4

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