Biology 1002B Lecture 8: Lecture 8- Integrated Metabolism I.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Biology
• Course: Biology 1002B
• Professor: Tom Haffie

Document Summary

You will get more gold from this lecture if you come prepared by: Look these terms up on wikipedia, or in your textbook. What prevents chlamydomonas from being a heterotroph that grows on glucose? (what you should be able to do after the assigned readings and activities. These outcomes are testable but may not be addressed directly in class. ) (what you should be able to do after attending and reviewing the lecture. Heterotroph: an organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth. Brings in molecules that have c-h bonds. Metabolic flexibility if chlamy was both a heterotroph and an autotroph: natural selection would favour this it would be evolutionarily favourable and advantageous. Metabolic flexibility to be both a heterotroph and an autotroph evolution would favour this. Autotrophs: use energy from the sunlight (photoautotrophs) or inorganic compounds to produce organic compounds (ie. plants)