BIOL1010 Lecture Notes - Ciclosporin, Plant, Penicillin
8 Mar 2014
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Living things are: organized, acquire materials and energy, reproduce, respond to stimuli, are homeostatic, grow and develop. All chemical processes in cells that make energy, synthesize required substances, and excretion of waste. Toxic chemicals: very high pressure, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus. Binomial nomenclature: species species name, describing uniqueness. 1st word is the genus, describing similarity to other organisms, 2nd word is the: bi = 2, nomial = names, nomenclature = naming system, created ^ in 18th century, uses latin. Include both genus and species, written in italics: genus has capital, species does not, bacteria, archaea. Species: eukarya, a group of organisms that can reproduce and produce viable offspring. Typically unicellular, prokaryotic cell structure: comparatively small, abundant and adaptable. Live in and on most things: many produce antibiotic substance to gain an advantage over competing species and individuals, some produce restriction enzymes, useful in genetic analysis.
