BIOLOGY 3UU3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cell Culture, Neoteny, Exponential Function
15 Apr 2017
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You could weigh it because the conservation of design and various sorts of elements across phylogenies is highly constrained and also ruled by specific types physical and biological rules that interact with each other. If you know allometry you can predict all features of most species without doing a dissection. It comes down to body size and what that means for physiology. There are 2 things you look for when doing biology or physiology: what kinds of underlying principles can unify the subject so we can look across some function and make predictions. If you know the body size of an animal you can predict it"s respiration rate with 98% accuracy across species: you can predict their aging rates across species with 66% accuracy. If you look at things that are conserved then biology is something that is very highly conserved across all life.
